Protests of hauliers and farmers in Jan 2024: Societal resilience vs elite ineffectiveness

On January 10th, 2024, Romanian farmers and hauliers engaged in a nationwide protest against the government’s transport and agricultural policies, briefly blocking traffic at border crossings and several cities, including the frontier with Ukraine and the capital’s ring road.

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