European Farmers are protesting against national and EU farming rules.
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00:00 66 people have been arrested after protesting farmers blocked the famous Avenue Champs-Elysees
00:06 in Paris during the early hours of Friday.
00:09 Using tractors and bales of hay, farmers briefly brought the traffic to a standstill on the
00:13 iconic avenue near the Arc de Triomphe near French President Emmanuel Macron's office,
00:18 the Elysees Palace.
00:20 In addition to their national demands, the French farmers are protesting against an EU
00:24 trade pact with a mercenary group of South American countries.
00:29 In Poland, farmers blocked the road to Lithuania, the only access route for the Baltic states
00:34 to Poland.
00:35 They were opposed to the alleged re-export of Ukrainian grain, which would go from Poland
00:40 to Lithuania in transit and return from Lithuania as a EU import to Poland with no testing or
00:45 control.
00:46 But Jerry Plower, the Polish deputy agricultural minister and a European Commission member,
00:52 blamed record exports from Russia, low prices and products sold to African and European
00:57 markets fought the grain crisis.
00:59 [WHOOSH]