site.btaAnger of Farmers in Europe Has Not Subsided, Protests Have Moved outside European Parliament - Bulgarian in Strasbourg Reports

Grain producers and other farmers started indefinite protests on Tuesday, blocking roads across Bulgaria. The decision follows what the National Grain Producers Association concluded was an unsuccessful meeting with the Prime Minister and the

European farmers' protests are justified, all farmers are currently squeezed by the high costs of the standards they meet and by competing imports from Ukraine, Agriculture Minister Kiril Vatev told journalists on Thursday in the Troyan monastery, Lovech Municipality, northwestern Bulgaria.

During a debate on the future of agriculture in the EU at a meeting of the Council of the EU, Minister of Agriculture and Food Kiril Vatev said that support to farmers must be fair so that there is no inequality between them. "We have all witnessed how many member states currently have farmers' protests, and this fact raises extremely serious questions about the current Common Agricultural Policy, and poses very serious tasks for the future of Europe's agricultural policy," said Minister Vatev.