A signal from the government to stop the farmers' protests. After another day of demonstrations that saw thousands of tractors mobilized across France to block major roads, new Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced a series of measures expected to benefit the world of agriculture. The Prime Minister, on the occasion of his […]
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A signal from the government to stop Farmers protests. After another day of demonstrations, with thousands of tractors mobilized everywhere France to block the main traffic arteries, according to the new Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced a series of measures designed to benefit the world of agriculture. The Prime Minister, on the occasion of his mission Montastruc de SaliesIn the Haute-Garonne department (80 km southeast of Toulouse), Attal announced, among other things, that he wanted to put an end to “the increase in non-road diesel” for agriculture. The government package will consist of ten measures: “The prefects will bring farmers together to see what can be simplified.” At government level we will see what we can simplify, with the aim of a bill on agricultural orientation.”
Attal announced various administrative simplification measuresThis is about one of the main reasons for the anger in the country: the bureaucracy that delays reimbursements and compensation and creates difficulties for small companies that are already struggling with new rules, ecological requirements and European standards. One of the examples often cited by protesters is the refund of the full tank of diesel for agricultural vehicles, which is not automatic and direct at the pump, but forces workers to keep receipts and receipts and sign a written declaration for each refueling.
The most loyal of Emmanuel Macron He also mentioned simpler procedures for cleaning agricultural waterways and the deadlines for legal appeals. He then guaranteed that the Paris government “will impose three very serious sanctions on three companies that violate the so-called 'Egalim laws', as part of the complex negotiations with industry and large retailers, in order to protect farmers' incomes. “. “The goal – he said – is clear: to enforce egalim everywhere and without exception.” He then announced that controls would be tightened and promised to exert “maximum pressure” on the ongoing negotiations of all actors. He then wanted to reinforce that again “France is clearly against it” on the signing of the EU-Mercosur trade agreement. Finally, he announced “emergency aid” of 50 million euros to respond to the difficulties in the organic supply chain. And it will “double the emergency fund” to support farmers in Brittany affected by Storm Ciaran. He then also announced a concrete plan for viticulture.
Following the announcements, demonstrators began lifting blockades in several cities: “Go home,” they said. The mobilization particularly affected centers such as Bordeaux, Montpellier and Lyon. “The official order is to return home“, he explained to the France Presse a spokesman for the Fnsea union from Hérault, in the Montpellier region in the south of the country, while the union's reaction at national level is still awaited. According to initial estimates from the union and the Jeunes Agriculteurs (Yes), they were Around 72,000 farmers mobilized in France today to express the anger of the rural world.
Tensions in the country remain very high. According to the spokeswoman for the Confédération paysanne union, Laurence MarandolaAttal's announcements were “largely inadequate” and farmers would “maintain their mobilization.” “There won't necessarily be roadblocks,” he added, there will be “different forms, on the streets, in roundabouts, in front of supermarkets, we will find creative ways to tell the government that it's not enough.” A gesture, which could even represent more than a concession was Attal's decision to leave that evening Roadblock on the A64 in Carbonne, near Toulouse, between hay bales and barricades. That's where the protest was born and grew, there Jerome Bayle, considered the leader of the agitation for the initiation of the first blockade, addressed for the first time the demonstrators wearing the yellow caps that symbolized the agrarian uprising. The highway will reopen in the morning. “We fought for this, and now we say enough about all of this,” shouted Bayle, visibly satisfied, to the applause of the demonstrators.