Tractor protest, Brescia motorway toll booth blocked. Agriculture Minister Francesco Lollobrigida recently met with representatives of the tractor movement, who came to demonstrate in front of the Verona Fieragricola.
The European Commission has announced a new extension of the derogation from the common agricultural policy (CAP) rule which provides that to access community aid farmers must leave certain amounts of fallow land. This principle of cross-compliance applies to almost 90% of the used agricultural area in the EU.