MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Since Sunday, French farmers have been stopping trucks carrying German and Spanish farm products from entering France, in a row over what they regard as unfairly low prices.
Speaking with the Deutschlandfunk radio station, Germany’s agriculture minister said that road blocks were "not normal."
"We are in a single market. They export more agricultural products from France than they import. I don’t see French farmers or whoever blocking exports from their country, so they mustn’t stop the imports," Schmidt argued, adding that France must respect the free trade area.
A week of protests prompted France's President Fancois Hollande to promise a minimum price for milk and other measures to prioritize French producers, triggering condemnations from Berlin.
