After leaving the vehicles from different regions, the vehicles will gather in Bilbao’s Arenal to demand an end to the free trade agreements and guarantee fair prices for the baserritarras.
The agricultural unions EHNE and ENBA have organized a tractor rally for the next 9th in Bilbao to demand an end to the free trade agreements and the guarantee of fair prices for the baser tarras.
In a joint statement, EHNE and ENBA call for concentration of the Next Friday a tractor in Bilbao’s Arenal, after leaving the vehicles from different regions of Bizkaia.
These unions have recalled that the agricultural protests they have multiplied in different states of the EU in recent weeks and have emphasized that the root of this unrest lies in the “lack of income and future prospects for the vast majority of the producing part, largely resulting from the neoliberal policies pursued by the EU for decades”.
According to EHNE and ENBA, the agricultural sector needs “concrete and real answers” to its problems, calling for “paralysing negotiations on agreements such as MERCOSUR and not ratifying the New Zealand agreement due to the threat of mutton starter” .
EHNE and ENBA have indicated that a ‘transparent’ market will be held during the Arenal tractor rally on the 9th where vacuum-packed lamb will be offered at a ‘fair price’, to denounce the ‘threat posed by the arrival of lamb’ to set. of New Zealand”.
They also claim that the prices paid to the baserritarras should ‘cover the costs of production’. That is why they call for a food policy ‘based on market regulation as a mechanism to guarantee decent prices’.
They demand a ban on sales below production costs and the simplification of the current European agricultural policy (CAP), as ‘excessive bureaucracy’ entails ‘unaffordable’ costs.
The farmers of Álava and Navarra They will also join the protests and take to the streets with their tractors on February 6. Tuesdayto denounce that their situation is “untenable”.
Source: EITB
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