Disgruntled Spanish #farmers have brought traffic in the center of #Madrid to a halt after driving their tractors to the capital in protest at soaring costs, plummeting prices, #EU red tape and Moroccan cut price imports. Ken Browne of CGTN reports.
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00:00 Farmers have taken the center of Madrid.
00:03 Hundreds of tractors currently making their way to the Ministry of Agriculture.
00:08 They are angry because they say their way of life is at threat.
00:13 Soaring costs, plummeting prices.
00:16 They say that the regulations and the bureaucracy coming from Brussels
00:20 is hindering them from doing their job.
00:22 And they point the finger of blame at foreign produce, particularly from Morocco.
00:28 Morocco has sold some 2 billion US dollars worth of fresh produce in the European Union last year.
00:37 Farmers here say that they have an unfair advantage
00:41 because they do not keep to the same standards or restrictions and regulations as European farmers.