"European Farmers Stage Tractor Protests Over EU Policies and Prices"

Spanish farmers, protesting high costs, bureaucracy, and competition from non-EU countries, blocked roads across Spain and clogged Barcelona with convoys of tractors. They argue that EU environmental regulations make them less competitive and demand fairer conditions for imported produce. The protests prompted the Spanish government to allocate a 269 million-euro subsidy for farmers and led the European Commission to cancel a plan to reduce pesticide use in the EU.