“We cannot leave our agriculture at the mercy of unfair competition.”
The government, through its spokesperson Prisa Thévenot, announced “new measures” on Tuesday.
An announcement which comes before the farmers, whose anger continues to grow, put their blockade threats into action.
This Monday, at the end of an anticipated Council of Ministers due to Emmanuel Macron's trip to Sweden the next day, the government spokesperson also announced "that 215 million will go into the farmers' treasury from next month ".
In the morning, the Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau promised on France 2, new announcements within “48 hours”, while the first wave issued on Friday did not sufficiently convince farmers, who are demanding measures in particular concrete measures on their remuneration, the simplification of standards and the reduction of European rules.
For his part, the president of the FNSEA Arnaud Rousseau returned to the threats of blockages weighing on the capital for this early afternoon.
Paris "will be surrounded by a certain number of tractor convoys but at a good distance because we do not want violence", he detailed, specifying that the farmers plan to be "between 30 and 40 kilometers from the capital on the main highways from 2 p.m.