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“Anger is being expressed, which is not new.
» This Monday morning at the microphone of France Inter, Arnaud Rousseau, president of the FNSEA, warned that the farmers' outcry would result in repeated demonstrations.
“I can tell you that from today and throughout the week and for as long as it is necessary, a certain number of actions will be carried out,” alerted the leader of the first French agricultural union.
To ease tensions, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has a meeting this Monday, at 6 p.m., with Arnaud Rousseau and the Young Farmers' Union, who will be able to make their demands heard.
As elsewhere in Europe, French farmers are crying out against financial burdens and environmental standards deemed too heavy.
The president of the FNSEA also railed against the increase in imports, while “we are being asked to set fallow land”.
Also read: Anger of farmers: European Union, State… who sets the rules?
The farmers' demonstrations did not wait for this call from the FNSEA to mobilize.
Since Thursday evening, several dozen operators have been blocking the A64 motorway, which links Toulouse to Bayonne, near Carbonne, in Haute-Garonne.
Another example, some blocked access to the Golfech nuclear power plant, in Tarn-et-Garonne, on Monday.
The day before, Minister Marc Fesneau had announced the postponement of his Agriculture bill for “a few weeks”.
What to also remember
The trial of the Trèbes and Carcassonne attacks has opened
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Seven accused appear in Paris starting this Monday.
They were part of the entourage of the author of the jihadist attacks, Radouane Lakdim, shot dead by the gendarmes.
He killed four people in March 2018, including Lieutenant-Colonel Arnaud Beltrame, who had taken himself hostage to save an employee of the Super U in Trèbes.
Pollution in Parisian public transport
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Île-de-France Mobilités and Airparif, the air quality monitoring association, have published a map of the pollution levels of 44 metro and RER stations and stations.
A majority have “degraded” air quality, while three have “high” pollution.
A new storm hits France
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The Isha depression blew gusts of more than 90 km/h inland, as in the Paris region during the night from Sunday to Monday.
The northwest coast and the Brittany, Normandy and Hauts-de-France regions were the most exposed to these winds.
A gust was measured at 142 km/h in the Channel.
Météo France has kept the northern part of the territory on yellow alert.
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This is the end of the “tariff shield”.
Sunday evening, Bruno Le Maire announced an increase in electricity prices from February 1st.
Guest of 8 p.m. on TF1, the Minister of the Economy indicated that private electricity bills would increase by 8.6% for basic rates (10.6 million consumers at the end of 2022) and by 9.8 % for peak/off-peak rates (9.3 million consumers).
“For 97% of French households, the increase will be below 10%,” explained the minister.
These increases mark the return of one of the main taxes on electricity: the TICFE (domestic final consumption tax on electricity).
In December 2021, to help the French cope with soaring prices, in particular because of the war in Ukraine, the government put in place a set of measures which made it possible to maintain prices for consumers at an acceptable level. .