The mobilization of farmers will continue. The FNSEA plans to mobilize farmers again, “everywhere in France”on December 9 and 10, declared Arnaud Rousseau, president of the majority agricultural union, on Friday, November 29. This new wave of actions will be “Around the income, around the relationship with the price of our products, particularly in the context of the beginning of commercial relations, of negotiation with distributors. And so we will be in action”he said in RMC.
“It will be Monday and Tuesday of that week [9 et 10 décembre]with the aim that we can conclude our cycle [de manifestations] with a meeting with the Prime Minister (…). “We need concrete results to be achieved”he added.
Unions received on Friday at the Ministry of Agriculture
After their historic mobilization at the beginning of the year, the agricultural unions launched a new protest movement in mid-November, dispersed but with in common the demand for better income and opposition to the EU-Mercosur free trade agreement project. .
The FNSEA, an ally of the Young Farmers (JA), organized its mobilization in three stages, dedicated first to Mercosur, then this week to the issue of standards and “simplification” administrative, before going to income, in ten days.
The Minister of Agriculture, Annie Genevard, will receive on Friday the FNSEA and JA, and then the Movement for the Defense of Family Farmers and Rural Coordination, to “move forward with concrete measures aimed at simplifying daily life” farmers, according to the ministry. The Peasant Confederation will be received, which also asks for better income and administrative simplifications without questioning the rules and their control. “in the next few days”.
What is the agreement between the European Union and Mercosur? Understand in three minutes
Less than a year after massive mobilizations, many French farmers are once again expressing their firm opposition to the signing of a free trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur, a trade alliance between Argentina and Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia.
The objective of this treaty, under discussion for more than twenty years, is to facilitate trade between these countries and Europe by almost completely eliminating customs duties. Except these products are not subject to the same standards as in the EU.
For farmers, this would mean the arrival of unfair competition on the European market. For this reason, and also for ecological reasons, several European countries – including France – oppose signing this agreement as it is.
In this video we return to the reasons that push French farmers to reject the EU-Mercosur agreement. And to know more, we invite you to read the decryption below.
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