Mercosur settlement, farmers invade Paris with 350 tractors | EUROtoday

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Invasion of tractors in Paris: farmers, at conflict towards the treaty with Mercosur that the EU is getting ready to signal, entered the French capital once more this morning, this time with as many as 350 autos that traveled alongside the quays on the Seine. They ask for “concrete and immediate actions” from the federal government just a few days after the signing of the settlement, on Saturday in Paraguay. The protest is organized at this time by the primary agricultural union, the FNSEA, and its Young Farmers allies.

The lengthy uninterrupted line ran alongside the capital’s river, passing proper underneath the Assemblée Nationale. At that second the banner with the phrases “The agricultural revolt resumes” was unfurled. Protests additionally proceed within the south-west, within the Toulouse area specifically, with a highway block on a motorway which pressured the police to intervene to revive visitors.

Damien Greffin, vice-president of the FNSEA and president of the Chamber of Agriculture of Ile-de-France, speaks to journalists exterior the National Assembly, as French farmers protest towards the EU-Mercosur free commerce settlement and the French authorities’s agricultural coverage, in Paris, France, January 13, 2026. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

“The Mercosur agreement has been approved even though the European Parliament has not yet expressed its opinion. This will lead to the importation of foreign products that we are perfectly capable of producing in France and which do not meet the standards imposed on French agriculture,” he mentioned Damien Greffinvice-president of the FNSEA and farmer from the Paris area.

Greffin introduced that farmers would additionally protest with an indication in entrance of the European Parliament in Strasbourg scheduled for January 20.

The strain on the Paris authorities