In Haute-Garonne, farmers mobilized near Toulouse for CAP-related aid payments.

Farmers found bitumen in Haute-Garonne. At the call of young farmers, this Monday they demonstrated with their tractors in front of the service and payment agency Balma, which, among other things, pays European state aid related to CAP. They threw out hundreds of kilograms of straw and used tires to denounce the irregularity of aid payments, more than a month after the agricultural crisis rocked the country, according to the Dispatch. They are expecting a payment of between 10,000 and 20,000 euros. “Prime Minister Gabriel Attal promised: on March 15 we were supposed to receive the CAP salary. As of Friday we have not received anything yet. Some farms need this help: so we’ll go and pick up the check. »

At the end of January, Gabriel Attal effectively announced that CAP assistance would be paid no later than March 15 into the bank accounts of operators. The Young Farmers’ Union issued a call for mobilization last week, Monday 18 March, more than a month after they met with Gabriel Attal in Montastruc de Sales at the height of the agricultural crisis to demand accountability.

Most of the farmers came from Laurage or Gers. “The government should take this as an incentive. If we do not receive the money due to us, the mobilization will go up a notch. We are young, we have nothing to lose. We are not denying ourselves anything,” said Thomas Klanker, secretary general of the Young Farmers organization.

Meeting on Tuesday with Gabriel Attal

Agnès Pannier-Runacher. The Minister Delegate to the Minister of Agriculture confirmed that part of the aid has already been paid to TF1 and that “other aid will be sent in the coming days”, most of which should be “paid before June”.

The minister was questioned about the postponement of Emmanuel Macron’s meeting with FNSEA farmers, which was announced on Saturday by the union’s president, Arnaud Rousseau. Agnès Pannier-Runacher confirmed that meetings with Prime Minister Gabriel Attal would continue until “the end of this series.” FNSEA stands by all of its 62 requests and wants all of them to be taken into account. “We are waiting for the implementation of Gabriel Attal’s measures regarding pensions, water, herbal medicines, breeding, cash flow, simplification… There is no pace at all,” Arnaud Rousseau detailed in a post on X on Saturday.

“Negotiations continue to progress on 62 commitments,” added Agnès Pannier-Runacher.