European governments scramble to find farm workers for harvest

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Each summer Bartoszyce, a town in north-east Poland, empties out as much of its working-age population heads to France to help its vineyards with their grape harvest. But this year border closures to limit the spread of coronavirus may prevent them from making that journey. Until this year, Bartoszyce’s residents were part of a mass movement of seasonal workers from eastern Europe and north Africa to western Europe; each spring and summer, hundreds of thousands of people crossed international borders to pick crops, playing a vital role in the continent’s food chain.

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