Farmers demonstrated their dissatisfaction in front of the water agency in Rouen (Seine-Maritime), this Tuesday, November 26, 2024, at 12 p.m. They denounce constraints and a lack of dialogue with this agency. Many actions are planned throughout Normandy this week.
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The farmers' anger is far from over. Opposed to the proposed free trade treaty between the European Union and Mercosur, the protest movement restarts this Tuesday, November 26, 2024, in front of the water agency in Rouen (Seine-Maritime), at noon, at call from the FNSEA (National Federation of Farmers' Unions and JA (Young Farmers).
Arriving with their tractors, around forty demonstrators with around ten tractors ask the water agency to “simplification and lifting of constraints”.
They spread straw and earth in front of the agency and started packing it. According to them, this institution takes “measures that are too restrictive and incomprehensible” for farmers. They also denounce “an impossible dialogue” with the agents.
“It is the symbol of French overadministration, closed to agricultural issues, insists Bruno Ledru, president of the FNSEA 76. They give us standards every year without looking at those from before, new standards that we don't understand, without worrying about rain or shine…”
The demonstrators assure that they will stay at least until 3 p.m. and say they are open to dialogue with the Water Agency.
On Mercosur, “even if some progress has been made, expectations to lift constraints, put an end to European over-transpositions, in short to free the taste for entrepreneurship in agriculture remain high”indicate the unions.
Actions are planned throughout Normandy in the coming days.
Other mobilizations are also expected.
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