Truckers and farmers block roads for a third day across Romania over high prices of insurance, fuel, and fertilizers.
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00:00 Truckers and farmers in Romania have blocked roads for a third day across the country,
00:06 angry at the prices for insurance, fuel and fertilizers.
00:11 Farmers and transporters complain that foreign firms are favoured and say many companies
00:16 are on the verge of bankruptcy.
00:18 "If you don't get a job, you don't get a salary, because you don't earn anything."
00:26 These gendarmes made filters at main roads into Bucharest, as the protesters threatened
00:32 to blockade the city, in their effort to pressure the Romanian government.
00:36 "We are not associated with any political party, we cannot go any further.
00:43 For three days we have been receiving requests and requests from the government that are
00:46 not being taken into account."
00:47 The outskirts of Bucharest were blocked with 400 trucks from 10 AM, driving slowly in protest
00:53 against long hours spent at border controls that eat into their profits.
00:57 [WHOOSH]