IFA President Francie Gorman, accompanied by his son Tom, departed on a tractor from the Irish Farm Centre on 9.30am Monday morning to arrive in Brussels on Thursday for the Europe-wide farmer protest organised by the European farm umbrella body COPA COGECA. The event, which will be the biggest in a decade, will focus on three key themes: the CAP budget, the Mercosur trade deal and excessive regulation around the cost of doing business.
The President and Tom will stopped off at a number of points to meet farmers along the route from the Farm Centre to Rosslare, where they took a ferry to Dunkirk and then onto Brussels.
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