Tractors block motorway exit at northern city of Brescia

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 31 - Farmers in tractors blocked a motorway tollbooth at Brescia on Wednesday, creating major traffic disruptions in the southern part of the Lombardy city.
    Like many other farmers across Italy, they are protesting against European agricultural policies that they claim to be harmful to the sector.
    Earlier Farm Minister Francesco Lollobrigida met with representatives of the protest movement in Verona and said afterwards that the meeting had gone "very well".
    The protests are a spin-off from similar demonstrations across Europe including France, Belgium, Germany and Greece. (ANSA).