From this Sunday, November 17, activists from the FNSEA and Young Farmers are planning union actions in particular to denounce the Mercosur free trade agreement that the European Union plans to finalize by the end of the year with South American countries.
Press release from the Departmental Federation of Farmers’ Unions of Côte-d’Or and Young Farmers of Côte-d’Or of November 14, 2024:
We walk [toujours] on the head!
Health crises and climatic hazards, MERCOSUR, other international agreements, overadministration, overregulation…
Our demands are simple:
• Short-term and cash flow measures
• Drastic administrative simplification
• Being able to make a living from our profession: Recognize agriculture as of general interest through the completion of the agricultural orientation law
• Stop European and global inconsistencies: let’s restore ambition to European food sovereignty.
Despite unprecedented agricultural mobilizations at the start of 2024 and a particularly difficult agricultural campaign, the actions which were to follow the promises are only arriving in dribs and drabs. This is completely insufficient.
FDSEA and JA 21 therefore call on the farmers of Côte d’Or to mobilize within the framework of the national movement FNSEA + JA, in several acts:
Pre-mobilization: Covering of municipal entrance signs
Sunday November 17 – evening
ACT 1 – Action “Fires of Wrath”
Monday December 18 – from 6:30 p.m.
Stop international agreements that bring in agriculture that we don’t want:
MERCOSUR, uncapped Ukrainian exports, Chinese imports…
Light communication action in response to the SOS last January in Mâconge.
Farmers, consumers, press, politicians: We need everyone’s support!
ACT 2 – Union actions
From November 25 – precise dates and locations communicated after 11/18
For simplification, against overadministration, against excess standards and distortions of competition.
ACT 3 – Price and income actions
From December 9 – precise dates and locations communicated after 11/18
