French farmers will resume protests if the government fails to comply

On the day of meetings between President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Gabriel Attal with union leaders in the sector, the idea of ​​a return to protests came back strongly, with the Paris Agricultural Expo set as a clear deadline.

“We are ready to return to work, if the responses do not live up to our high expectations,” Arnaud Rousseau, president of France's National Federation of Farmers' Unions (Fnsea), told the press after his meeting with Attal.

According to Rousseau, it will only be acceptable for the head of state to arrive with good speeches in the Agricultural Hall, an event that will begin on February 24 at the Porte de Versailles fairgrounds.

The union leader stressed that there is no distrust or dissatisfaction with the government, and admitted that all matters cannot be resolved in three days.

The peasants put the executive in check between January 18 and February 1 by blocking the country's highways with tractors and other measures, demanding answers to low salaries, the impact of inflation, excessive bureaucratic procedures, unfair competition, inequality, and stringent European environmental standards. Extremely. .

Attal announced three packages of measures to try to stop the unrest, including aid, easing measures, increasing controls to avoid losses in trade relations and a commitment not to support the EU-South Common Market agreement.

Macron received leaders of the Rural Coordination and the Peasants' Union on Tuesday at the Elysee Palace.

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