Anger of farmers: In response to their mobilization announced until December, Michel Barnier promises that France will not accept the EU-Mercosur agreement “under current conditions”

“We are going to get back on the road from next Monday because the G20 will open in Brazil,” said the head of the FNSEA before tackling Mercosur, “this trade agreement which binds some of the States of South America to Europe and which risks having dramatic consequences for agriculture.

This mobilization in front of the prefectures and on roundabouts must be “responsible”, without violence, and stop in mid-December so as to “not take the Christmas period hostage, a period of consumption of our products”, he said. declared Arnaud Rousseau during a press conference. The mobilization could restart if necessary “in January”, he said.

“A country like France”

France will not accept the EU-Mercosur agreement “under current conditions”, the Prime Minister insisted this Wednesday after a meeting in Brussels with the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.

“I told the president that, under current conditions, this agreement is not acceptable to France and it will not be,” Michel Barnier told journalists. “I recommend that we do not ignore the position of a country like France,” he added. He spoke of a “disastrous impact” if the agreement were to be signed.

He also announced that he wanted to fight against the “normative inflation” that farmers denounce.