Columns of hundreds of tractors disrupted traffic in Hamburg, as well as in other cities across the country.
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French farmers are not the only ones to mobilize. In Germany, farmers blocked the roads leading to several ports in the north of the country to protest against the removal of a tax advantage on Monday January 29.
Columns of hundreds of tractors also caused traffic disruptions throughout downtown Hamburg, while a farmers’ demonstration was held in front of the station, authorities added. “Significant traffic disruptions are occurring in the port area”the largest in Germany, causing the blockage of part of the “truck traffic”warned the city police on the social network
A “significant slowdown” in traffic in Bremerhaven
Other German seaports were also disrupted. In Lower Saxony, farmers blocked access to the Jade-Weser-Port with around 40 tractors, according to the police. In the port of Bremerhaven, a “gathering” of farmers on a crucial road axis has led to a “significant slowdown” traffic.
These actions are part of a massive mobilization movement by German farmers, who have been opposing for several weeks a reform of taxation on agricultural diesel, which provides for the removal of an exemption from 2026. This rebellious movement has spread to other European countries, such as France, Poland and Romania. It targets in particular the growing European environmental obligations imposed on the sector, the increase in production costs since the war in Ukraine, and the administrative burden falling on farms.
