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As T-Online reports, a VW factory in Emden, East Frisian, has come to a standstill due to farmer protests. “Production was completed today,” a VW spokeswoman said. The routes to the factory were blocked by farmers’ protests. It is therefore not possible for employees to come to work.

The production of models with combustion engines was affected. The intention is that production of the electric cars will not start again until next week after the Christmas holidays. It is not known exactly how many employees are affected by the outage. Production was expected to resume on Tuesday. (Yes W)

About 550 demonstrators take part with their vehicles in the farmers’ protest at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. At 10 a.m., police counted 566 tractors, trucks, cars, vans and trailers, as well as 550 people on the June 17 street between the Brandenburg Gate and the Victory Column, a spokeswoman said.

In addition to farmers, many bus and truck drivers are also participating in the protest, and among the demonstrators are also many craftsmen. The Street of June 17 was closed on Sunday evening. It said there was no information about planned roadblocks. The police are in close contact with the person who registered the meeting, the spokeswoman said.

The farmers’ protest has paralyzed road traffic in many places in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Farmers and transporters blocked access to the highways with hundreds of tractors and trucks. The parades left commuters stuck in traffic jams on their way to work in many cities across the country. The police counted more than 3,500 participants in the parades throughout the country. In Rostock and Stralsund there were about 900, in Schwerin 640 and in Neubrandenburg about 400. As a police spokesperson says, the city ring road in Schwerin was sometimes completely closed.

The city of Bremen is also virtually closed off from the outside world. There will be a big meeting in Überseestadt at 10am. Data from the traffic management center shows that all highways in and out of the city are blocked.

As a result of the farmers’ protest, several cities have been cut off from the outside world. As the Brandenburg Police announced on platform X, formerly Twitter, access to the city of Cottbus is no longer possible. The urban area of ​​Brandenburg an der Havel is also not accessible.

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The entrance to the city #Cottbus will probably no longer be possible in the very short term.

There is also currently no possibility to enter the city area #BrandenburgHavel to get.

— Brandenburg Police (@PolizeiBB) January 8, 2024

Leipzig’s city center is also largely blocked by the farmers’ protest. “You can always get off the highway, but you can’t go back,” said Robert Erdmann, spokesperson for the association ‘Land creates connection’ to the news portal ‘Tag24’.