DIRECT. Farmers mobilized this Monday, disruptions expected
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7 h 06. But actually, what does this free trade agreement with Mercosur mean? We take stock in the video below:
7 h 04. Farmers' demands are multiple, as the FNSEA points out: administrative simplification, support for treasuries, strengthening food sovereignty and putting an end to the EU's inconsistencies in this area. The planned signature with Mercosur is “the drop of water”, denounces the union.
7 h 02. In our Central-West departments, several actions are planned, and some started on Sunday:
- Deux-Sèvres: from 7 p.m. this Sunday, members of the Young Farmers and the FNSEA went to cover municipal signs everywhere. This Monday from 2 p.m., two roundabouts will serve as a gathering place for tractors. A procession of tractors will then set off on the ring road around 3 p.m., to the exhibition center, where they intend to stay all night.
- Loir-et-Cher: agricultural unions are planning an action in front of the Blois prefecture, at 7:30 p.m. this Monday.
- Indre-et-Loire: the FNSEA confirms mobilizations, rather from Tuesday or even Wednesday in the department. Demonstration type operations and blocking points. Rural Coordination 37 says it is waiting for its national congress scheduled for Wednesday.
7 h. Hello and welcome to this live.
Here is what you need to know at the start of the day to follow the mobilization of farmers:
Update at 7 a.m.
- Agricultural unions (FNSEA, Young Farmers, Rural Coordination) are firmly opposed to the free trade agreement that the European Union wishes to sign with the Mercosur countries: Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, in particular. The “straw” that breaks the camel’s back, says the FNSEA while the demands are multiple: administrative simplification, support for treasuries, strengthening food sovereignty.
- The mobilization, which began this Sunday, November 17, continues more intensely this Monday, November 18, the opening day of the G20 in Brazil.
- From Sunday, convoys of tractors began to converge towards Yvelines, more precisely towards air base 107 of Vélizy-Villacoublay, a symbolic site since it is there that the head of state takes the plane for his trips to the 'stranger.
- In all, 82 actions have been recorded in France, the head of the FNSEA, Arnaud Rousseau, said on BFMTV on Sunday.
- According to the Yvelines prefecture, it is advisable to avoid the following roads, in the province – Paris direction on Sunday, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., and in the other direction on Monday, until 2 p.m.: the A10, N118 , RN104, RN20, RD74, RD17, RD117, RD19, RN12, D44.
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