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This week, Romania saw large-scale protests by farmers and transport companies, blocking roads and paths in Bucharest and other cities. Romanian farmers are following in Germany’s footsteps and have decided to demonstrate against high taxes, green bureaucracy and rising car insurance costs. The constantly rising prices for fuel and fertilizers as well as falling subsidies in agriculture are also a problem. In response to the protests, Agriculture Minister Florin Barbu called a meeting of his department with representatives of agricultural and transport unions, writes the news portal Euractiv. The Association of Agricultural Producers of Romania points to increasing restrictions and unfulfilled promises made before the country joined the union in 2007.
Romanian farmers, farmers, transport operators and truck drivers began protesting last week and continued with sporadic demonstrations across the country on Sunday. The aim is to restart negotiations between union representatives, the coalition and the government over high car insurance rates and slow payment of subsidies. Already during the week, convoys of tractors, trucks, tractors and other agricultural vehicles began gathering on national roads near major Romanian cities.
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Convoys of vehicles blocked traffic around the cities and then entered the streets of Bucharest and other cities, the VOA news server reports. In addition, they also blocked the border crossing with Ukraine in the northeast of the country or the border with Bulgaria near the city of Calfa. The trucks also blocked the entrance to the Black Sea port of Constanta and wanted to block the center of Bucharest. But the convoy of tractors, trucks and tractors was stopped by police outside the Romanian capital because the demonstrators did not have a permit to protest.
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The demonstrators criticize high car insurance surcharges, high excise taxes on diesel, a moratorium on loans, slow disbursement of state subsidies to farmers, damage caused by drought and technical measures by the state bureaucracy. Truck drivers are also demanding that trucks from the EU have a separate queue at border crossings than trucks from outside the EU, including Ukraine.
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Trucking and farmer representatives say some trucking and agricultural companies are on the verge of bankruptcy. The Minister of Agriculture Florin Barbu has called a meeting with all agricultural associations and unions for Monday, where he will present the program for the coming year 2024 in detail.
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Romanian farmers and truck drivers took part in a spontaneous demonstration in Bucharest and other major cities on Wednesday in protest against the government.
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At the same time, the minister assured farmers that subsidies will be disbursed promptly and diesel subsidies will be maintained at the maximum possible level. According to EuroNews, the head of the Association of Agricultural Producers of Romania (LAPAR), Nicu Vasile, said that Romanian farmers face “many restrictions” that fundamentally deviate from the promises made when the country joined the European Union in 2007 . “Absolutely.” “No promises were kept – except that subsidies were cut,” Vasile said.
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Romanian farmers and drivers are following protests in Germany, where they are also demonstrating against falling subsidies and higher fuel prices. German farmers continued their nationwide protests last week against planned austerity measures by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government, which wants to gradually remove tax incentives for diesel in agriculture. On Monday, farmers across Germany blocked roads and highways, and several border crossings with the Czech Republic were also impassable. They intend to continue the protests until January 15th.
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