About 2,500 farmers and 367 tractors are protesting in Madrid over Mercosur and the CAP.

Some 2,500 farmers and 367 tractors are protesting this Wednesday starting from Madrid's Plaza de Colón at the call of Unión de Uniones and the National Union of Independent Primary Sector Associations (Unaspi) against the agreement between the EU and Mercosur and the CAP cuts. Some 2,500 farmers and 367 tractors are protesting this Wednesday starting from Madrid's Plaza de Colón at the call of Unión de Uniones and the National Union of Independent Primary Sector Associations (Unaspi) to show their rejection of the agreement between the EU and Mercosur and the CAP cuts. These are provisional figures for the demonstration, at 12.00 hours (11.00 GMT), pending the arrival at Plaza de Colón of two columns of tractors (coming from Torrejón de la Calzada and El Espinar) that are already traveling through the capital. According to the same source, 56 buses have arrived. At 11.00 hours, the five columns of the tractor demonstration had passed into the jurisdiction of the National Police ...