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In the French countryside, the prospect of ratification of trade agreements between the European Union and Mercosur is arousing anger. In Maine-et-Loire, it is shared by the three main agricultural organizations which say they are ready to act. But not right away.
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Already in July 2019, farmers from the FDSEA / Young Farmers of Maine-et-Loire network demonstrated their opposition to the agreements with Mercosur on a bridge in Angers. An action that should be resumed. | ARCHIVES CO
Eleven months later, is the anger of the French agricultural world about to awaken? Arnaud Rousseau, the president of the FNSEA, the first trade union organization in the sector, called for mobilization on Wednesday in all departments
starting next Monday. With one main objective in mind: to make public authorities aware of the risks “ dramatic
for French agriculture, of a possible ratification of the trade treaty negotiated by the European Union with the Mercosur countries.
The call owes nothing to chance. It comes on the eve of the G20 meeting in Brazil (November 17 and 18), where agricultural unions fear the definitive political endorsement of this draft agreement with the free trade zone which unites Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia. Agreement supported by the European executive, unlike France, isolated on the subject. From there to imagine the return of blockages on motorways and main roads like last January and February? Very unlikely. In Maine-et-Loire at least.
Action by the FDSEA Wednesday, November 20
Question of context. Meteorological first….
