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Europe is in the midst of a farmer revolt. Protests that began in France over falling incomes, soaring costs and "environmental overregulation" have quickly spread to other countries this week.
Tractors have been blocking roads across the continent. As The Grocer went to press on Thursday, angry French farmers - unimpressed with president Macron's response to the crisis - were closing in on their capital city as part what has rapidly become known as a modernday 'siege of Paris'.
They say they will stay "as long as they have to", according to Jenny Brunton, senior European policy advisor for the British Agriculture Bureau in Brussels. So could the unrest spread to the UK?
The main ask of European protesters is for more government help on fuel prices and other input costs, action to tackle the impact of imports and a cut to bureaucracy, Brunton says. That's particularly when it comes to the cost of implementing the EU's updated Common Agriculture Policy and its tighter sustainable farming provisions.
While protestors outside France have their own local...