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French farmers blocked key roads across the country for the second day in a row on Tuesday. Paris and threaten to block the important wholesale market for Rungiswaiting for the announcement of “New measures” promised by the government.
The Prime Minister, Gabriel Attalshould deliver its general policy declaration in the afternoon, during which new announcements are expected to try to calm the anger of farmers in Europe’s third agricultural power and sixth in the world.
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“Let’s see the speech (…), but there is little chance of anything coming out“, he told AFP Yohan Francoisof the union FDSEAexpressing their joy at seeing the farmers’ determination to resist in the long term.
Aboard tractors, farmers began a “siege of the capital for an unlimited time“, at the request of the first agricultural center, the FNSEAand its allies Young farmers (JA), after 11 days of protests.
“It was a short night, we will have to recover, but we are ready.” he says in a hoarse voice Samuel Vandaelea farmer under a bridge on the A4 motorway, about thirty kilometers east of Paris.
The farmers who spent the night there were prepared from the morning to wait for the hundred of their companions who will arrive from the northwest of the country. Francethanks to a tent, braziers, generators, beer taps and coffee thermoses.
Early in the morning, more than 100 kilometers of traffic jams were recorded in the Paris region, according to the Sytadin website.
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Also advancing from the south of the country is a convoy of 200 tractors that left on the eve of Agent going to the wholesale market Rungisone of the largest in the world, with the aim of blocking it at the request of the union Rural Coordination.
The authorities mobilized a large number of security forces to prevent this action, which does not have the unanimity of the agrarian movement. “Our goal is not to starve the French“, warned the FNSEA leader, Arnaud Rousseau.
The sector demands measures to address falling incomes, low pensions, administrative complexity, inflation of environmental standards and foreign competition, especially the agreement negotiated by the European Union and the countries of Mercosur.
Source: Elcomercio
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