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.
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