Farmers’ anger is growing in France. “I can tell you that from today and throughout the week and for as long as necessary, a certain number of actions will be carried out”, declared Arnaud Rousseau, the president of the first French agricultural union, the FNSEA, Monday January 22, on France Inter. Follow our live stream.
Gabriel Attal receives the FNSEA. Faced with the anger of farmers which is spreading in Europe without sparing France, Gabriel Attal receives this Monday evening, at 6 p.m., in Matignon the powerful agricultural union FNSEA, which expects “concrete acts”. “Our farmers are not bandits, polluters, people who torture animals, as we sometimes hear”launched Gabriel Attal on Saturday in the Rhône, as a sign of appeasement.
Several blockages in progress in Occitania. In Haute-Garonne, a portion of the A64 motorway is still blocked at Carbonne, between Toulouse and Saint-Gaudens. Around ten farmers slept there for the fourth consecutive night, noted the Radio France journalist present on site. The wall of straw bales which blocked the road was also set on fire in the early morning, the farmers recall “a malicious act” and say to themselves “all the more determined.
A European mobilization. The government fears a conflagration while from the Netherlands to Romania via Poland and Germany, farmers are stepping up actions against this tax increase and the European Green Deal. All this against a backdrop of inflation and competition from Ukrainian imports.