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The government wants to resume dialogue with farmers. The Minister of Agriculture, Annie Genevard, will receive, on Friday, November 29, representatives of the FNSEA, Young Farmers, Rural Coordination and Modef. The objective is to “collect their requests for regulatory simplification and implement the most urgent measures”explained the ministry on Thursday. Representatives of the Peasant Confederation will be received “in the coming days”specifies the ministry.
A “punch operation”. Around a hundred demonstrators erected a concrete block wall in front of the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (Inrae) in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. “Inrae is of no use, fed up with this institution”launched Cyrille Milard, vice-president of the FDSEA of Seine-et-Marne.
A surprise mobilization in Nice. Around a hundred farmers from the Alpes-Maritimes demonstrated in Nice, according to France Bleu. They met early Thursday morning in front of the Alpes-Maritimes departmental administrative center and dumped wool and manure in front of the building.
Environmentalists denounce violence. Three environmental protection associations were targeted by farmers, denounced France Nature Environnement (FNE). “This violence is intolerable in a rule of law”protested the association in a press release. Two complaints have already been filed.
The Senate opposes the Mercosur treaty. Like the National Assembly the day before, the Senate on Wednesday approved the government's position in opposition to the proposed free trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur. A rare subject of consensus within the political class, the text was voted on almost unanimously in the upper house, by 338 votes out of a total of 348 senators.
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