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More than 300 German farmers on Friday arrived on tractors at the party headquarters of the country’s coalition government in Berlin in a fresh protest at plans to cut fuel subsidies. “The protests of recent weeks have shown that the profession is standing together and that a tipping point has been reached and caused the barrel to overflow,” Henrik Wendorff, president of the Brandenburg State Farmers’ Association, said in a statement. Around 250 tractors drew up outside the party offices, the Berlin police said. According to the association, the farmers wanted to submit a catalogue of demands …

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