Rural Coordination needs to “encircle Paris” this Sunday | EUROtoday

Prime Minister François Bayrou will meet that day with the Peasant Confederation, the Rural Coordination, the FNSEA and the Young Farmers, Matignon introduced on Friday. A gathering too late within the eyes of the Rural Coordination, which maintained its Sunday mobilization, publicizes Patrick Legras, spokesperson for the group, to the Reuters press company. “Those who want to defend good French food join us from January 5 at 6 p.m. in Paris,” he wrote on his X account, Saturday January 4.

The offended farmers, recognizable by their yellow caps, are threatening to dam entry to the capital on today of heavy site visitors linked to the return from the Christmas holidays. The Paris police headquarters and that of Val-de-Marne have banned “any undeclared gathering” within the middle of Paris and close to the Rungis market, from this Sunday 6 p.m. till Monday midday.

“The Rural Coordination carried out all the requests in a compliant manner but they are playing with us, they are tricking us once again. It’s a lack of consideration when we know very well that the police are experiencing the same things as us,” lamented Véronique Le Floc’h, president of Rural Coordination, on the RMC microphone. According to her, “everything will go as planned” to “encircle Paris”.

The mobilization may final a number of days

“As long as the responses” supplied to the agricultural disaster “are not favorable”, the commerce unionist envisages the potential for mobilizations extending over a number of days.

The agricultural world is demanding the applying of measures whose implementation is slowed down by the political instability attributable to the dissolution of the National Assembly, then the censorship of the federal government of Michel Barnier. Among the unions’ calls for are an finish to the overtransposition of requirements and higher management of imports.

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Farmers are additionally involved in regards to the signing of Mercosur, a free commerce settlement between the European Union and 5 Latin American nations, together with Brazil and Argentina. France is against the present phrases of this textual content, which have to be ratified earlier than coming into into drive. The challenge is “unacceptable as it stands,” declared President Emmanuel Macron, who expressed reservations about its impacts on French agriculture and the atmosphere.

The agricultural mobilization in France comes because the launch, Tuesday, of the official marketing campaign for the elections to the Chambers of Agriculture approaches. The vote, scheduled for the second half of January, will define the brand new stability of energy between the unions.