MAP | These will be the road closures due to the farmers’ strike in Catalonia

2024-02-03 15:30:00

At eight in the morning in Fondarella (Pla d’Urgell) farmers in the Lleida area are summoned to go out in slow march with their tractors towards the A-2 highway, which runs through the municipal area of ​​this town next to Mollerussa. The call, agreed this Tuesday night in an assembly in which around 500 producers participated, is one of the actions that next On February 6, different points of the road network will be cut Catalan. The farmers, grouped in a transversal platform named 6F, demand, among other issues, that the conditions for imports be tightened of foods from non-EU countries, which are usually produced without having to meet the strict requirements of the European Union (EU). They consider it unfair competition against their farms.

In addition to the Fondarella rally, there will also be mobilizations in Montblanc (Conca de Barberà), where the tractor meeting is scheduled at the roundabout of the N-240 and C-14 roads (in what is known as the Rifacli factory roundabout). From there, the protesters will leave for the AP-2 highway. And in Amposta (Montsià), where the intention is to cut the AP-7. There will also be a concentration on Gironain the Fontajau parking lot, at eight in the morning, while in Vicprotesters are called to meet at nine at the El Sucre fairgrounds.

Blockade of the port of Tarragona

The complaint against foreign imports that circumvent European regulations, environmental, labor and, sometimes, food safety, will lead the Unió de Pagesos union to next February 13 to the port of Tarragona, whose access they want to block from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. The participants in the action will leave in slow motion from various Tarragona towns such as Valls (Alt Camp), El Morell (Tarragonès) y Reus (Baix Camp).

In the rest of the Catalan territory, for that same day the 13th, there are also planned other mobilizationswhich contemplate, if necessary, tractor units in the main Catalan cities. They protest against the “serious situation of the Catalan peasantry in the face of the excessive costs and the effects of the drought.”