Why will farmers be back on the streets of the capital this Wednesday?

As the G20 summit being held in Brazil next week approaches, part of the agricultural world is mobilizing again to reiterate its opposition to the EU-Mercosur free trade agreement.


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Jean-François Munster


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By Jean-François Munster

Published on 11/12/2024 at 3:43 p.m.
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Lhe tractors will once again appear at the Schuman roundabout, the epicenter of the European institutions, this Wednesday morning in Brussels. At the call of Fugea, an agricultural union which defends peasant agriculture, and the European federation ECVC (European Coordination via Campesina), an action is organized to once again say “no” to the free trade agreement. -exchange negotiated between the European Union and the Mercosur countries (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay). The peasant agricultural world wants to make its voice heard while a G20 summit is being held in Rio de Janeiro on September 18 and 19 and the famous treaty could be signed there.



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