Today, Monday, farmers in Germany closed the roads leading to several ports, including the port of Hamburg (north), as part of demonstrations that have been ongoing for weeks to protest the cancellation of tax exemptions they were benefiting from, as part of a wave of protests waged by farmers across Europe.
The police in Hamburg warned, on the “X” platform, that “major traffic disturbances are occurring in the Hamburg port area,” the largest in Germany, causing the obstruction of a large portion of “truck traffic.”
Also, queues of hundreds of tractors disrupted traffic throughout Hamburg's city centre, while a farmers' demonstration was held in front of the train station, authorities said.
Work was disrupted in other German ports. In the state of Lower Saxony (north), farmers with about 40 tractors blocked access to a container port near the city of Wilhelmshaven, according to the police.
Also, a “gathering” of farmers on a main road near the port of Bremerhaven (north) led to a “significant slowdown” in traffic.
These measures are part of a large-scale mobilization movement by German farmers who have been opposing, for several weeks, the reform of agricultural diesel taxes, which stipulates the abolition of the exemption from which farmers have benefited, by the year 2026.
These protests come during a period of negotiations between unions and the government, and while the movement has spread to other European countries, such as France, Poland, Romania, and Belgium.
These actions specifically target the increasing European environmental obligations imposed on the sector, the increase in production costs, and the administrative burden placed on farmers.
In France, the National Federation of Farmers’ Unions, which represents most workers in the profession and young farmers in the vicinity of the Paris metropolitan area and in the north, is preparing today, Monday, to impose a siege on the capital, starting at 14:00 (13:00 GMT) “indefinitely.” “.
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