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Romanian agreement with farmers and hauliers ends protests

Published 02/02/2024, 17:34
Updated 02/02/2024, 18:21
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Romanian farmers line up their tractors en route to Nadlac Customs while protesting over the price of grains and demand fallout from having an influx of cheap Ukrainian grains in Remetea Mare, Timis county, Romania April 7, 2023. Inquam Photos

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Romanian farmers line up their tractors en route to Nadlac Customs while protesting over the price of grains and demand fallout from having an influx of cheap Ukrainian grains in Remetea Mare, Timis county, Romania April 7, 2023. Inquam Photos

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's coalition government said on Friday it had reached an agreement with farmers and hauliers to end weeks of protests against high business costs, even as farmers elsewhere in the EU continued to block roads and border crossings.

The protests stem from anger about low prices for produce, rising costs, imports of cheap foodstuffs and constraints imposed by the European Union's drive to fight climate change.

In Romania, hundreds of farmers and truck drivers began protesting three weeks ago, with convoys of tractors and trucks slowing or blocking traffic on national roads near large cities, including the capital Bucharest.

They also briefly blocked a border crossing with Ukraine and tried to cut access to the Black Sea port of Constanta. 

The government has made concessions, taking steps to increase subsidies for diesel, address high insurance rates and expedite subsidy payments, as well as technical measures to reduce long waiting times at border crossings.

On Friday, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu and protesters’ representatives signed an agreement that sets up a committee bringing together several ministries to come up with solutions, the government said.

Romania is holding local, parliamentary, presidential and European elections this year.

French farmers also began lifting blockades on Friday after their government made further concessions.

But elsewhere protesters blocked the Dutch-Belgian border and roads in Greece, while the Polish farmers' union Solidarity announced a general strike starting next Friday, to include a blockade of border crossings to Ukraine.

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