Catalan farmers keep street closures for the third consecutive day in opposition to the settlement with Mercosur | News from Catalonia | EUROtoday

For the third consecutive day, Catalan farmers keep roadblocks on varied roads to precise their rejection of the settlement between the European Union and Mercosur as a result of threat it poses to the sector and since, they denounce, imported merchandise typically don’t adjust to the strict well being ensures that they need to respect. In Galicia there have additionally been street closures for a similar motive this Saturday.

Revolta Pagesa plans to keep up, at the very least till Monday, the street closures. “We will remain strong and continue with the road closures, at least until Monday, which is when the European Union agreement with Mercosur must be signed,” mentioned one of many members of Revolta Pagesa Valentí Roger, who’s taking part within the closure of the AP-7 motorway in Girona.

The Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food of the Generalitat, Òscar Ordeig, requested this Friday for “responsibility” from the organizers of the agrarian protests and from the administrations. Ordeig demanded “a certain guarantee of mobility” to have the ability to present important providers, resembling feed for animals on farms.

According to data from the Catalan Traffic Service, because the eighth there have been closures on the A-2 in each instructions of journey, between kilometers 480 and 487, between Bell-lloc d’Urgell and Mollerussa. Access to the Port of Tarragona can also be closed, particularly the A-27 southbound. Another level of street closures is the AP-7, between kilometers 29 and 47, in each instructions, between Borrassà and Vilademuls (Girona).

In the previous few hours, farmers have added new protest factors and have lower off the N-II in Bàscara (Girona), in each instructions, between kilometers 737-745. The C-16 can also be closed in Casserres (Barcelona), in each instructions, between kilometers 90 and 95.

A gaggle of Galician farmers and ranchers additionally protested this Saturday in opposition to the settlement with Mercosur, particularly within the province of Ourense by chopping the A-52 because it passes by means of Xinzo de Limia at kilometer 188. During the protest, the individuals burned straw curlers and tires. In statements to Europa Press, one of many spokespersons for Ourense farmers, Oscar Joga, has described the settlement between the EU and Mercosur as “a real ruin for Spanish agriculture” and has warned that “they want to empty Spain and they are going to empty it.”

Snowfall forces roads to be closed

The intense snowfall this Friday and early this Saturday in varied components of the Catalan Pyrenees has pressured three roads to be closed and autos to make use of chains on one other twenty roads within the provinces of Girona, Lleida and Barcelona.

Specifically, the C-28 is closed as a result of threat of avalanches between Baqueira and Casa Sastrada (Lleida); the GIV-4016 in Toses (Girona) and the BV-4024 within the Coll del Pal (Barcelona), the place the wind additionally impacts, stories the Servei Català de Trànsit (SCT) in an announcement this Saturday.

In the province of Lleida, the chains within the C-13 between Llavors and Esterri of Aneu are compulsory; within the C-142b in his entry to the Beret; within the C-28 between High Aneu and High Aran; within the C-28z between Valencia of Aneu and Esterri; within the L-500 between Pont Suert and Boí Valley, in addition to within the L-501, L-504 and N-141 in Bossòst, Lladorre and Boí Valley.

In Girona, the GI-400 in Alp is affected; the GIV-4015 in Toses; the C-38 in Sant Joan de les Abadesses y Molló; the GIV-5263 and GIV-5218 in Ribes de Freser; the GIV-4016 in Planès; the GIV-5262 in Pardines; the GIV-5223 in Camprodon; the GIV-4011 between Campelles and Ribes de Freser and the GIV-5217 in Queralbs.