Romanian Farmers Force Concessions From Government
Bucharest surrenders by striking a deal with protestors, promising major policy reversals.
Bucharest surrenders by striking a deal with protestors, promising major policy reversals.
“Eruption” of protests planned amid winter of unrest, with truckers backing angry farmers.
Inspired by similar protests around Europe, tractors and trucks fill the streets of Bucharest.
The protests are a thorn in the side of the new Polish PM.
Protesters claim European Commission allows unfair competition from Ukraine to ruin EU trucking businesses.
INTERVIEW Many have noted that the COVID-19 pandemic did not make things worse so much as simply accelerate existing trends. You’ve been writing about what
Europe has an overall shortage of truck drivers. According to Transport Intelligence, the continent lacks as many as 400,000 drivers, as truckers have retired and fewer young people are interested in taking up the profession.
The first days of the strike seemed to have little effect on goods moving through the country. By the end of the week though, deliveries of fresh fruits and vegetables, fish, and seafood to market hubs had fallen drastically.
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