Between the Rural Coordination and the Peasant Confederation, the unusual alliance | EUROtoday

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During a roundabout blockade to protest against the slaughter of cattle in the midst of an epidemic of contagious lumpy skin disease, by members of the Young Farmers, the Peasant Confederation and the Rural Coordination, in Carcassonne, December 17, 2025.

A priori, every part separates them, and but they have been facet by facet, all through the winter of 2025-2026, throughout demonstrations or blockades organized by the agricultural world. The presence in massive numbers of activists from the Rural Coordination (CR), carrying their “yellow caps”, alongside these from the Peasant Confederation could have been shocking. The first formation, labeled to the fitting of the fitting and now second agricultural union behind the highly effective National Federation of Farmers’ Unions (FNSEA), discovered itself hand in hand with the representatives of the anti-globalization union, labeled to the left, anti-liberal and anti-productivist.

At the origin of their frequent calls for, the unfold of lumpy pores and skin illness (LCD) in cattle farms. And a shared slogan: “We don’t contact our animals, we refuse the systematic slaughter of herds to cease the epidemic. » Fanny Métrat, the nationwide spokesperson for the Confédération paysanne, want to return to those convergences: “It began in the course of the first alerts on the DNC, in Haute-Savoie, in the summertime of 2025. Our activists have been there, with many different farmers, to denounce the federal government’s slaughter coverage. »

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