Retro 2024. In the Channel, again and again the anger of farmers

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The agricultural anger had broken out in several European countries in October 2023.

In Franceit began with the reversal of town entrance signs under the slogan “We walk on our heads”.

Crushed by standards

It was extended in January par filter dams on the RN13 by the FDSEA and Young Farmers of La Manche unions, and even the blocking of the A84 in the South Manche by the Rural Coordination.

For once unanimous against free trade treaties of which agriculture is a currency of exchange, these three unions and the Peasant Confederation have also regularly carried out shares in supermarkets and hypermarkets to get out of the displays of imported food products.

They also demand a simplification of administrative procedures and the end of regulatory overtranspositions applied in France. THE Attal Government had promised a lot of things in this direction. Except that the dissolution of the National Assembly then the censorship of the Barnier Government stopped everything or almost everything.

New actions

The wait concrete progress and the probable ratification of the free trade treaty with the Mercosur countries (despite opposition from France and a few other European countries) have reignited agricultural anger throughout France this fall. All agricultural unions have once again called for action against the backdrop of the battle for the Chamber of Agriculture elections which will take place in January 2025.

Radars were covered by the Manche Rural Coordination in the South Manche then in Fresville. On November 18, one hundred farmers responded to the call from the FDSEA and Jeunes Agriculteurs de la Manche unions to say “No to Mercosur” by gathering in Barneville-Carteret. They installed “symbolically three construction site radars facing the sea to monitor imports coming by sea”.

With the JA and local elected officialsthey also continued to raise awareness among the state on the need to relax rules cleaning of ditches and watercourses and those on classified installations.

On November 28, the Peasant Confederation staged a junk food menu at the E.Leclerc center in Agneaux.

On December 6, twenty farmers from the Manche Rural Coordination, led by Yannick Bodin, newly elected president, went to the port of Cherbourg to set up a barrier filtering trucks coming from from Irelandsuspecting fraudulent imports milk and butter. A gathering is planned before the European Commission on January 14.

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