The Minister of Agriculture Annie Genevard is making her first field visit to Pas-de-Calais this Thursday since the return of farmers to the streets, the mobilization now seeming to be mainly limited to the actions of the yellow caps of the Rural Coordination.
In the South-West, stronghold of this union competing with the FNSEA-Young Farmers tandem, blockages of logistics platforms continued on Wednesday, in particular access to the commercial port of Bordeaux and major retail purchasing centers. Supermarkets were also targeted.
However, according to the authorities, “mobilization appears to be decreasing” across the country compared to the start of the week. The president of the FNSEA Arnaud Rousseau announced that the next demonstrations led by its members would take place next week, “Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday”, “to denounce obstacles to agriculture”.
On Wednesday evening, the minister reiterated the government's opposition to the Mercosur agreement, and its desire to bring together a blocking minority within the EU to prevent it, an effort with uncertain results, while a debate in This subject will be held in the National Assembly next Tuesday.
To read on the subject:
– In the Landes, rural coordination raises the tension a notch
– In Gironde, the “yellow caps” besiege the Port of Bordeaux and a purchasing center
– “We are here so that there is nothing left on the shelves”: in Montauban, the farmers of 47 break camp before being dislodged by the CRS
