US EditionFrench farmers bring tractors to Paris to press for looser rules
- On May 26, 2025, French farmers drove tractors along several highways into Paris and gathered peacefully outside the National Assembly to protest proposed amendments loosening environmental farming rules.
- The protest was triggered by opposition lawmakers submitting amendments to a bill aimed at easing regulations related to animal breeding operations and water management projects, as well as reinstating a previously banned neonicotinoid pesticide.
- Farmers and unions like FNSEA argued the bill would help them compete amid rising costs and cheap foreign imports, while environmentalists warned the pesticide would harm bees and benefit large agro-industry.
- Grain farmer Julien Thierry urged legislators to take the matter seriously and approve the bill without changes, while expressing disapproval of opposition from Greens and left-wing MPs.
- The event highlights ongoing tensions in French agriculture between economic pressures and environmental concerns, reflecting a broader EU trend to unwind some environmental regulations.
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The LocalTractor protests expose the hypocrisy of French farming policies
French farmers once again took to the streets in their tractors this week, demonstrating over a proposed new law which, writes John Lichfield, exposes the hypocrisy at the heart of French agricultural debate.
French farmers bring tractors to Paris to press for looser rules
French farmers disrupted highway traffic around Paris and rallied in front of parliament with their tractors on Monday, protesting against amendments filed by opposition lawmakers to a bill that would loosen environmental regulations on farming.
Gathering Farmers in Paris: "Our Goal Is Not to Demand Pesticides, but the Ease of Installation for Livestock Farming"
At the call of the FNSEA and the Young Farmers, the agricultural sector was mobilised before the National Assembly on Monday, 26 May. The Duplomb bill, criticized by the left and environmental associations, is to be discussed this week.
Alexandre Jardin: "Agriculturalists, Rural Mayors, artisans... The Gueux Are Right to Mobilize Against the Humiliations of Power"
FIGAROVOX/HUMEUR - This Monday, May 26, agricultural unions intend to block Paris in protest against the turn of parliamentary debates around the Duplomb bill, promising to reduce some of the constraints on the peasants. The writer Alexandre Jardin praises this revolt movement.
French farmers threaten to block Paris to push for risky pesticide re-introduction
French farmers are planning to block highways around Paris from Monday to push the French parliament to adopt a bill that would loosen restrictions on pesticide and water use in farming. The country's main farming unions want to pressure MPs into re-authorising neonicotinoids, a neurotoxic insecticide accused of causing massive bee and pollinator die-offs.
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