Insights and Stories on Spain

Jan. 30, 2024 at 9:44 am CST

Belgian farmers angry about rising costs, EU environmental policies and cheap food imports blocked access roads to the Zeebrugge container port on Tuesday.

By Reuters

Jan. 26, 2024 at 10:51 am CST

French farmers blocked a main road linking France and Spain with a demonstration at the border on Friday as part of nationwide protests over low food prices and excessive bureaucracy.

By Catarina Demony, Emma Pinedo, Reuters

Mar. 9, 2021 at 8:28 pm CST

Athens | Reuters — Greece will deliver 50 tons of animal feed to the Togo-flagged Elbeik, which has been stuck at sea for nearly three months in the Mediterranean carrying hundreds of cattle rejected by their buyers amid fears of disease, government sources said Tuesday. The vessel is expected to […]

By Reuters

Feb. 26, 2021 at 5:50 pm CST

Cartagena | Reuters — More than 850 cows that spent months aboard a ship wandering across the Mediterranean are not fit for transport anymore and should be killed, according to a confidential report by Spanish government veterinarians seen by Reuters. The cows were kept in what an animal rights activist […]

By Marco Trujillo, Nathan Allen

Jun. 19, 2020 at 10:04 am CDT

Villafale, Spain | Reuters — Brought to Spain on a special flight amid the coronavirus lockdown, some 250 Uruguayan sheep shearers race against time to shear millions of Spanish sheep as sweltering summer temperatures hit. The Uruguayan shearers come to Spain every year, where farmers value them for their skills, […]

By Juan Medina