The mobilization is gaining momentum. Several calls for demonstrations were launched on Monday January 22 for the coming days as part of the angry farmers’ movement. Mobilizations are notably planned, Tuesday January 23, in Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin), Beauvais (Oise), Agen (Lot-et-Garonne), Bergerac (Dordogne), Poitiers (Vienne), Niort (Deux-Sèvres) Carbonne (Haute-Garonne) or even Albi (Tarn). Follow our live stream.
“The ball is in his court.” In the evening, the FNSEA and the Young Farmers met Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and the Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau. At the end of this meeting, the FNSEA announced that there would be no “no lifting of actions carried out on the ground” without “concrete decisions”.
A toll booth dismantled on the A4. After the meeting in Matignon between the unions and the Prime Minister, 45 members of the Young Farmers’ Union of Moselle Est met in the early evening at the Saint-Avold toll, on the A4 which connects Reims in Strasbourg. Without their tractors but with tools, they made the highway free in both directions of traffic.
A tax that is debated. The planned increase in taxation of non-road diesel (GNR), the fuel used in tractors, is fueling farmers’ anger despite concessions obtained to mitigate it by the country’s main agricultural union, the FNSEA.