AGRICULTURE / Farmers from Hautes-Alpes and Alpes de Haute-Provence mobilized this Monday evening in Digne les Bains and Gap, to oppose the signing of the MERCOSUR free trade treaty, which will bring entry into the market foreign agricultural products not meeting French standards
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The anger of the countryside wants to be heard at the top of the State and of Europe. The FDSEA and JA unions in Hautes-Alpes and Alpes de Haute-Provence called for mobilization this Monday evening. A widely followed movement. In Digne les Bains, the entrance signs to the communes, which had been returned and then removed a few months ago, were burned.
On the Gap side, around a hundred farmers and 15 tractors paraded in front of the prefecture to finish at the Europe roundabout.
“Would you allow your children to eat products treated with chemicals banned in France? I am opposed to that, opposed to anything that prevents us from earning our living”, Laurent Gabel, co-president of the FDSEA des Hautes-Alpes
Quite a symbol because it is precisely Europe that must ratify the Mercosur free trade treaties. Treated with Latin American countries, namely Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. A text which would then open the door to markets for foreign agricultural products that do not respect French standards.
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