Angry farmers block access to Bordeaux port to up pressure on French government


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  • Thursday, 21 Nov 2024

PARIS (Reuters) - A group of protesting farmers on Thursday sought to block operations at the port of Bordeaux in southwestern France, as a new bout of agricultural anger intensified in Europe's largest crop-producing country.

Farmers in their tractors blocked all of the access roads to the port, which links the city to the Atlantic via the Garonne river, Jose Perez, a local labour representative from the Coordination Rurale union told Reuters.

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