Paris, (EFE).- European politics is one of the main reasons for criticism from French farmers, who have been mobilizing for five days and promising to continue their protests at least this week.
“There will be actions throughout the week and for as long as necessary,” warned Arnaud Rousseau, president of the sector’s main professional organization in France, the National Federation of Agricultural Exploitation Unions (FNSEA), this Monday.
In an interview with radio station France Inter, Rousseau explained that the mobilizations spreading across the country demonstrate “fediness” and that “farmers want to restore some form of dignity to their craft.” of income and competitiveness”.
Germany, the Netherlands and Romania are also protesting
With a view to the protests that are also rampant in other countries such as Germany, the Netherlands and Romania, he emphasized that “the common basis is the lack of understanding of the current European framework.”
Specifically, he spoke of the “Green Deal, the green pact, which clearly has a degrowth vision, as it implies that we will cut our production in Europe if imports skyrocket.”
He denounced “the lack of understanding of what is required of farmers” because, although on the one hand it is confirmed that production must be carried out to feed the population, the European consumer demands quality and naturalness, while increasing the intake of products from abroad .
Coherence of the French Agricultural Union
For the head of France's first agricultural union, there is a lack of “coherence” in European decisions.
“On the one hand, there cannot be trade agreements,” he said, that allow the import of products with production conditions that are not ours and, on the other hand, require French agriculture, considered one of the most sustainable production conditions. Production that the producers can't stand.
Since last Thursday, groups of farmers have been blocking the A64 motorway between Toulouse and Tarbes with their tractors – with vehicles leaving.
Others have joined them in various parts of France. This Monday, dozens of tractors gathered south of Perpignan with the intention of organizing an action that could affect the A9 motorway coming from the Spanish border. Something similar was organized at the entrances to the Golfech nuclear power plant, southeast of the city of Agen.
To address this crisis, which seems to be spreading less than five months before the European elections and which has numerous political implications, the French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal will receive this afternoon from 6:00 p.m. the top officials of the FNSEA and the Youth Farmers. EFE
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