Farmers from the Rural Coordination union have planned an action in Normandy, this Tuesday, January 7, 2025. They were also mobilized, Monday, January 7, at Heudebouville on the A13, Monday, January 6, 2025.
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Farmers from the Rural Coordination have resumed the fight, after the confectioners’ truce. These activists from the second agricultural union are pawing with impatience. There is no question of them waiting until January 14 to meet the Prime Minister, François Bayrou.
Monday January 6, 2025, they met at the Heudebouville tollbooth in Eure, on the A13. There were around ten farmers. There were only three tractors.
The initial objective was to go on the A13 motorway. The gendarmes positioned themselves very early on the access ramps to Heudebouville, preventing them from doing so.
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Some went to join the Parisian processions. “All the Prime Ministers come to us but nothing ever advances, we are always at the same point. It is time for politicians to take action,” plague Yannick Bodin, member of the Manche Rural Coordination.
“We’ve been being led around for a year,” adds Jérôme Cannivel from Rural Coordination in Eure.
But the day of Tuesday January 8 promises to be tougher. Sylvain de Bosschere, from Rural Coordination 76, announces that the tractors will leave at 1 p.m., from Moulin-d’Ecalles, rue Saint-Pierre. The procession will go towards the Métro wholesaler, ending at the prefecture around 5 p.m.
In recent days, the second agricultural union expected from the Prime Minister a “commitment” on two points “which cost nothing” : “stopping the over-transposition of European rules in France”, as well as the implementation of “controls on imports rather than on farms”explained Sophie Lenaerts, other vice-president of the union, to AFP.
Over-transposition consists of imposing stricter standards than European standards, particularly in terms of pesticides. “We want the same laws as all the other Europeans”, demanded Patrick Legras, spokesperson for the agricultural union, on franceinfo.
Rural Coordination also opposes the definitive ratification of the free trade treaty between the EU and the Mercosur countries, accused of encouraging unfair competition.
Rural Coordination is the only union to have launched a call for the mobilization of farmers. FNSEA-JA and the Peasant Confederation are clearly awaiting the meeting with François Bayrou.
Note that this mobilization coincides with the launch of the campaign for the elections of the chambers of agriculture.
