MADRID: Lots of of farmers paraded via the Spanish capital on foot and by tractor on Sunday within the newest protest over the disaster dealing with the agricultural sector.The farmers marched from the Ministry of Ecological Transition to the Ministry of Agriculture after the European Union proposed legislative modifications to drastically ease the environmental guidelines of the Frequent Agricultural Coverage (CAP) Friday.Rallied by their commerce union, farmers carried banners proclaiming “We are not delinquents” to the sound of horns and whistles. One embellished his tractor with a mock guillotine.”It is as if they want to cut off our necks,” mentioned Marcos Baldominos explaining his guillotine.”We are being suffocated by European rules,” the farmer from Pozo de Guadalajara, 50 kilometres (30 miles) east of Madrid, added.Friday’s concessions in Brussels aimed to loosen compliance with some setting guidelines, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen mentioned.Whereas the transfer was welcomed by Spain’s left-wing authorities, some environmental NGOs criticised the measures. “We are faced with a pile of bureaucratic rules that make us feel more like we are at an office than on a farm,” the commerce union behind Sunday’s march, Union de Uniones, mentioned as regards to necessities “that many small and medium-sized farms” can not “cope with”. Sunday marked the fourth demonstration in Madrid for the reason that begin of the broader European farm protest motion in mid-January.
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