French farmers stop traffic on the Champs-Élysées, while Polish farmers block road to Lithuania

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]