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Dozens of Spanish farmers block the AP-7 motorway linking Spain and France in the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia with their tractors, as part of a string of protests against the difficulties facing the sector. Farmers across Europe have been protesting for weeks over what they say are excessively restrictive environmental rules, competition from cheap imports from outside the European Union and low incomes. IMAGES
Despite fresh new measures announced this morning by French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, some farmers continue to block motorway A62 in both directions near Toulouse in southern France. IMAGES
Nicolas Sarkozy leaves the courtroom after the Paris court of appeal lightened a one-year prison sentence for the former French president over illegal campaign financing, saying he needed to spend only half that time behind bars. But while lighter than the original sentence, Wednesday's ruling was still harsher than the one-year suspended sentence that prosecutors called for. IMAGES
French police has stopped a farmers' convoy of hundreds tractors heading towards the Rungis wholesale food market south of Paris. Some 200 to 300 tractors are now sitting in the town of Sully-sur-Loire, 170 km south of Rungis. Setting off from the south-west of France at the call of union Coordination rurale, the group of angry farmers grew as they drove up the nation, with more and more joining along the way. IMAGES
A convoy of protesting farmers on their way to the wholesale Rungis market, south of Paris -- a key food distribution hub for the capital, was blocked by police at Sully-sur-Loire, in north-central France. IMAGES
Farmers, protesting in France, block a border crossing with Belgium at Bettignies, in the Nord region, forcing traffic to turn back, as the French government attempts to dispel their unease and convince the protesters to call off their mobilisation. IMAGES
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