The AP-7 highway is back open to traffic as he passes through the french border after being closed since yesterday at noon due to the protests that French farmers are carrying out in that country.

Traffic resumed at 11:00 a.m. and vehicles, mainly trucks, returned to being able to cross the border normally. The Servei Català de Trànsit (SCT) has reported that still two kilometers of retention are recorded heading north at exit 3, Figueres-Nord, although it is expected that circulation gradually returns to normal.

The section that connects Llers with Figueres (Girona) was the one that remained closed until 11:00 a.m. this Saturday. For a little over a week, dozens of barricades have paralyzed traffic on hundreds of kilometers of highways in France through the farmers protests.

Among other measures, the Government has promised a tax exemption for agricultural dieselthe commitment to negotiate in Brussels a new repeal of the obligation to leave 4% of land fallow and accelerate payments for the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), of which France is the first beneficiary, with 9,000 million euros a year.

This same Saturday, the Minister of Agriculture, Marc Fesneau, assured that next week measures will be made public to improve the performance of French winegrowers. While the French Government has assured that it has no intention of sending police officers to defuse the protests, which it judges to be peaceful, some episodes of violence have been recorded, such as the burning of the façade of the Government delegation in the city of Agen (southern France) last Wednesday. On Friday, two other public buildings went up in flames, the Social Agricultural Mutuality in Narbonne (south) and the Customs House in Nîmes.