Lots of town entrance signs have been removed. The initiative comes from the FNSEA, reports France Bleu.
The work should be blocked this Monday.
Farmers went in a procession on Sunday evening near the Villacoublay air base, near Paris, to denounce the proposed free trade agreement with the Mercosur countries, before new mobilizations from Monday.
“Macron, if you go to Rio, don’t forget your hillbillies”: aboard around twenty tractors and around thirty other vehicles, the demonstrators blocked two of the three lanes of traffic on the national 118, which runs alongside the Yvelines military base. Some of the farmers who came by tractor planned to spend the night there.
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On the ground, the mobilization, which could “last until mid-December”, will result in gatherings in front of prefectures and on squares or roundabouts called “Europe”.
Thus, members of the FNSEA and the JA plan to symbolically occupy the “Bridge of Europe” which connects Strasbourg to the German commune of Kehl.
President Emmanuel Macron affirmed on Sunday in Buenos Aires that France would not “sign as it stands” the free trade treaty between the European Union and Mercosur, saying he wanted to “reassure farmers” and “continue” to oppose it.
“France opposes this agreement. And I will tell you: President (Javier) Milei, he told me himself that he was not satisfied with this agreement,” declared Emmanuel Macron, after a visit to Argentina during about which he spoke twice with the Argentine president. Asked whether the European Union could override the French position, Mr Macron replied “I don't think so”, saying “I recognize the President of the European Commission Ursula Von der Leyen as a very big respect for France.”
Despite opposition from the political class in France, the European Commission, pushed by several countries such as Germany and Spain, seems determined to sign this agreement by the end of the year which will notably allow Latin American countries to sell more beef, chicken or sugar without customs duties in Europe.
Hit by poor harvests and emerging animal diseases, they believe they have still not reaped the fruits of last winter's anger: the implementation of the 70 commitments then made by the Attal government was slowed down by the dissolution of the National Assembly. And they consider the standards as complex as ever and the income insufficient.
Almost a year after a spectacular movement which lasted for many weeks, the agricultural world has launched new actions of discontent since Sunday. This time, it is a question of denouncing the announced signing of the free trade treaty between the countries of the European Union and those of Mercosur (Latin America).
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