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Video. French farmer protests shut Spain’s Biriatou border
Spain closed the Biriatou border crossing to lorries on Tuesday after farmer protests in France disrupted traffic in the south west. The Spanish Basque Government introduced special measures to manage knock on effects across the Basque Country as roads on the French side remained blocked. Heavy cross border vehicles over 7.5 tonnes are banned from public roads until France says the situation is back to normal. As a result, the Biriatou crossing …
In front of the prefecture on Monday 15 December, more than 250 farmers were mobilized, according to trade unions...
Representatives of the ELB and Confédération Paysanne unions met with the Prefect of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Jean-Marie Girier, in Pau on Monday afternoon to discuss the health management of the disease nodular dermatosis (NDK) affecting cows. "As the situation remains the same," the unions will continue to block the A64 motorway, the ELB said.
The farmers' protests continue unabated. Over the weekend, they blocked the A64 motorway, and this morning, the A63. This has caused traffic problems on both sides of the border between Behobia and Biriatu. Since early this morning, queues of up to nine kilometres have formed on the AP-8 in Irun (Gipuzkoa), towards Bayonne. According to the Basque Government's Traffic Directorate, the Biriatu toll booth is still open to trucks, but, as happened …
Last Saturday afternoon, members of the Coordination Rurale union and state representatives met at the Prefecture. However, the meeting did not go ahead...
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