Italian farmers protest at Sanremo music festival, while roadblocks continue in Bulgaria and Spain

Farmers are demanding changes in European Union farming policies and measures to combat production cost hikes

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00:00 Mirroring protests across Europe, farmers in Italy drove their tractors to the town

00:05 of Flores in Liguria to protest at the Sanremo Song Festival. Setting off from Lombardy on

00:11 Wednesday night, they travelled about 240 kilometres to represent Italian farmers in

00:16 their protest at the televised festival.

00:20 In Bulgaria, protests and road blockages continued for a third consecutive day across the country.

00:25 Negotiations between the farmers, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Agriculture on

00:30 Wednesday lasted nearly four hours, but the memorandum proposed by the authorities was

00:35 not signed. The parties plan on returning to the negotiating table on Friday.

00:42 And in Spain, farmers in Barcelona continued their protests into the night, and dozens

00:47 of roads remained closed in various Spanish regions on Thursday. It's the third day of

00:52 Spanish farmers' protests against European policies for the sector.

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