Truck drivers block French roads in "ecotax" protest


  • World
  • Sunday, 01 Dec 2013

PARIS (Reuters) - Several thousand truck drivers blocked roads across France on Saturday, causing severe disruption to traffic in protest against a new environmental tax on heavy goods vehicles.

The protest is the latest effort to force the French government to cancel the so-called "ecotax" through which it aims to raise more than 1 billion euros (843 million pounds) a year to finance mostly rail infrastructure projects.

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