France says the aim of the closures ... ties with the population on the other side of the border in Spain. Posters all across the town now call for the re-opening of the border.

Farmers' blockade had caused long queues of trucks at the Spain-France border - Copyright AFP Richard A. Brooks Farmers' blockade had caused long queues of trucks at ...

Stretching 450 miles, it is ever longer than France's border with Spain, which measures 387 miles ... this border and is crossed by the Oyapock River Bridge which connects the towns of Saint-Georges ...