Act 2 of mobilization. Around fifteen tractors spent the night on the N118 near Vélizy-Villacoublay (Yvelines), reported Monday, November 18, a franceinfo journalist on site. “A handful of farmers” continue to block two out of three lanes from Paris. The Sytadin site predicts severe disruptions until 2 p.m. Follow our live stream.
The return of tractors to the gates of Paris. The majority union alliance FNSEA-JA kicked off a new cycle of agricultural mobilization on Monday, with symbolic actions. Less than a year after a widespread movement of anger in the countryside, agricultural unions are once again calling on their troops to demonstrate, but in dispersed order.
Various demands. Hit by poor harvests and emerging animal diseases, they believe they have still not reaped the benefits 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.
The agreement with Mercosur in the background. The successful completion of the European Union's proposed free trade agreement with the Mercosur countries (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay) could ignite the situation. Despite opposition from the political class and French agricultural stakeholders, the European Commission seems determined to sign this agreement by the end of the year.
