During a showdown between winemakers, 25 thousand liters of wine were poured onto the road (1 photo + 3 videos)
Europeans are strange people. They themselves rang out to the whole world about the market economy and that the main thing is profit, and now they are organizing protests.
The idea is that the store will always be looking for a cheaper product that is of high enough quality to sell in order to make as much money as possible from it. And it doesn’t matter where the products are produced, in Italy or in France. The main thing is that the price for the wholesaler is pleasant. Logical? Logical.
But for some reason this doesn’t suit Italian wine producers. They are outraged, they say, because their industry is in decline because of such a strategy. The authorities are not helping with subsidies; stores are buying cheaper wine from competitors from France.
In the end, Italian winemakers switched to active forms of protest. Farmers in the city of Ciudad Real blocked the road, stopped passing trucks and poured French wine onto the road. As a result of the action, over 25 thousand liters of white wine were safely disposed of as a protest against Spain's agricultural policy.
Spanish and Polish farmers are not lagging behind their colleagues. They ride on tractors, interfere with the movement of transport in every possible way and are outraged by agricultural policy.
Police in the city of Poznan estimate that about 1,400 tractors took to the streets and drove up to the office of the regional governor. Protesters lit sparklers and placed a coffin symbolizing the death of Polish agriculture, as well as a wheelbarrow full of manure with an EU flag attached to it.
In Spain, farmers held their fourth day of protests. In addition to European policies, Spanish farmers claim that laws aimed at ensuring wholesale buyers pay fair prices for their produce are not being enforced while consumer prices are soaring.
Politicians are making small concessions, such as temporary permission to use all kinds of fertilizers and pest control, but the basic demands of farmers are still not taken into account.