<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">In Spain, farmers blocked traffic on some of the country's main highways today, joining other European countries farmers' protesting against high costs, bureaucracy and competition from non-EU nations.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">The Traffic Authorities said, many farmers took to the roads with their tractors, snarling traffic throughout the country from Seville and Granada in the south up to Girona near the French border.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Like other Europian Union countries, Spanish farmers are complaining about the increasing weight of European bureaucracy, low produce prices and rising costs.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Over the past few days, blockades in France and Belgium have sometimes escalated into violent clashes with the police. </span></p>