Tractors... near the National Assembly.
This Tuesday, more than fifty dairy producers demonstrated near the Palais Bourbon in Paris to demand better pay.
A few days before the start of the Agricultural Show and after two weeks of road blockages throughout France by farmers, operators are maintaining pressure on the government, despite the announcements made by the executive on February 1.
The APLI (association of independent milk producers) is at the origin of the movement.
“[
The
government]
is in the process of settling small measures to try to please farmers, but the problem is much more serious, it is structural, and it is a price problem
,” explained Adrien Lefèvre, spokesperson. word of the association, on France Bleu Paris.
“We need a European Egalim”
“Fair milk should be recognized as being of public utility”
, we can read on a sign hanging on the back of a tractor.
The same slogan was written on a fake cow, painted in the colors of the French flag.
Producers also denounce unfair competition.
“
The problem with Egalim is that it is Franco-French, we need a European Egalim.
If we do not have this kind of measures at least at the European level, we will have cheaper milk in Germany which returns to France,
said Adrien Lefèvre, still on public service radio.
So what we are going to gain extra on each liter of milk, on the other hand we are going to lose it in volume because there is competition from neighboring countries.”
This afternoon, representatives of the FNSEA and Young Farmers (JA) are expected by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal in Matignon, in the presence of the Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau and his delegate minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher.