US EditionNew Blockages Despite Announcements for Farmers
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▶️ Farmers remain mobilized, while the government made new announcements on Tuesday evening to calm their anger, including an emergency law. On the blockages and filtering dams launched this Wednesday morning, we therefore asked them why this is not enough in their opinion. The mobilization must continue, a new rally is already planned next Tuesday, in front of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, this time with farmers from all over Europe. (…
They expect the European Parliament to take on their three fundamental demands.
A new agricultural mobilisation took place on Tuesday 13 January throughout France. For several days, farmers/rices have protested against the free trade treaty between the European Union and Mercosur, which is scheduled to be signed on Saturday 17 January. Friday, 9 January, some 50 tractors from the CR 67 trade union gathered on the bridge of Europe in Strasbourg, where protestors expressed their concerns. Meeting.
Farmers will not give up and will take their protests against the EU-Mercosur trade agreement to the European Parliament. Copa-Cogeca, the main organisation of farmers' associations and cooperatives in the European Union, has joined the proposal made by French unions and has organised a demonstration in Strasbourg (Alsace, France) for 20 January. It will ask the European Parliament to block the agreement using all the means at its disposal: by v…
Farmers do not give up, relying on a referral to the Court of Justice of the European Union, which would suspend the agreement with Mercosur for several months.
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