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MAP: Where are farmers blocking roads in Spain on Friday?

Farmers in Spain will block major roads in Valencia, Málaga, Seville, Castellón and numerous other cities around the country for their fourth day of protests. This is what to expect on Friday February 9th on Spanish roads.

MAP: Where are farmers blocking roads in Spain on Friday?
Spanish farmers drive their tractors during a protest in demand of fair conditions for the agricultural sector, in Burgos, northern Spain, on February 6, 2024. (Photo by CESAR MANSO / AFP)

The fourth day of farming protests has kicked off in Spain, with some of the country’s major agricultural associations joining the movement again on Friday.

After a day in which protesters converged on Barcelona, they were out again on Thursday with several columns of slow-moving tractors snarling traffic on roads in the eastern Valencia region, Asturias in the north and the central region of Castilla-La Mancha, and several other regions.

Some protests have led to scuffles with Spanish police when they attempted to remove the roadblocks.

According to Spain’s interior ministry, 19 people have been arrested since the start of the protests. 

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In Ciudad Real, local media said hundreds of protesters dumped 25,000 litres of French wine into the street in front of the local water authority in protest at the central government’s policies on water.

Angry farmers have been protesting across Europe over rising costs, high fuel prices, bureaucracy and the environmental requirements in the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and its forthcoming “Green Deal”.

In response to the protest, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has promised to simplify the rules for implementing the CAP, as well as changing the laws so farmers don’t have to sell their products at a loss.

The following map gives you a better idea of the farmers’ roadblocks taking place across Spain on Friday February 9th:

So far, at 10am on Friday February 9th, farmers’ protests are taking place or scheduled to happen throughout the day in the following places:

  • Seville: blockade in both directions on the A-92 around Osuna
  • La Rioja: farmers blocking the N-232 in both directions around la Aldeanueva del Ebro
  • Badajoz: numerous blockades on the A-5, N-523, EX-103, N-430 and the N-435
  • Teruel: blockade on the N-420, the N-232
  • Cáceres. blockade on the EX-109 around Moraleja
  • Toledo: blockade on the N-301
  • Castellón: farmers in Corral de Almaguer are completely blocking the N-340
  • Valencia: two tractoradas on the V-31 around Albal and on the CV-374 around Ventas del Poyo
  • Huesca: tractors are blocking the N-330 around Almudevar and the N-240 around Sietamo
  • Zaragoza: at least 4 blockades on the N-330, the A-2, the N-122 and the N-232
  • Cuenca: A-3 is completely blocked around Castillo de Garcimuñoz 
  • Málaga: the A-7278 is blocked in both directions around Teba
  • Albacete. The N-430 is blocked around Villarrobledo
  • Navarre: Tractors are blocking the N-121 around Valtierra

For live updates, this map by the DGT will also help. The icons showing people are where the protests are happening.

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Spanish farmers stage fresh protests in Madrid

Hundreds of farmers paraded through the Spanish capital on foot and by tractor on Sunday in the latest protest over the crisis facing the agricultural sector.

Spanish farmers stage fresh protests in Madrid

The farmers marched from the Ministry of Ecological Transition to the Ministry of Agriculture after the European Union proposed legislative changes to drastically ease the environmental rules of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Friday.

Rallied by their trade union, farmers carried banners proclaiming “We are not delinquents” to the sound of horns and whistles. One decorated his tractor with a mock guillotine.

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“It is as if they want to cut off our necks,” said 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 environment rules, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said. While the move was welcomed by Spain’s left-wing government, 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 trade union behind Sunday’s march, Union de Uniones, said with reference to requirements “that many small and medium-sized farms” cannot “cope with”.

Sunday marked the fourth demonstration in Madrid since the start of the wider European farm protest movement in mid-January.

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