Tractors, signs, and European flag at half mast.
This Monday, at the Europe roundabout, in Compiègne, the Young Farmers (JA) and the FDSEA expressed their fed up, three weeks after the closing of the Agricultural Show.
An action which was to continue until 1:30 p.m.
The demonstration led to traffic slowdowns in Compiègne and Lacroix-Saint-Ouen this Monday morning.
The prefecture indicates in particular that the RD200 is closed between the RD200/RD210 interchange (exit towards Lacroix-Saint-Ouen) and the Robert-Schuman crossroads, at the entrance to the Zac de Mercières, is prohibited in the south/north direction. until 2 p.m.
Diversions have been put in place.
“Retirement today for farmers is calculated over their entire career, the FNSEA has been asking for years for it to be calculated over the best 25 years.
While progress suggested that this request would finally be successful, this has just been postponed to 2028,” worried the FDSEA and the JA, in a joint press release.
Reforms that are “not going fast enough”
After the peasant anger which spread throughout France, farmers say they have not been heard by the executive.
“Answers take too long to arrive.
What farmers are waiting for: to finally make a living from their profession, to put in place mirror clauses so that imported products meet the rules imposed on French farmers,” explains the press release.
“All aid intended for organic farmers in particular had to be paid before March 15.
It was not done, deplores Alice Avisse, breeder in Boissy-Fresnoy, present this Monday in Compiègne on the roundabout.
They don't make it.
And in the meantime, Macron cancels a meeting (Editor's note: a meeting scheduled for Tuesday at the Élysée with the FNSEA has been postponed).
Last Friday, Arnaud Rousseau, the head of the FNSEA, estimated that the reforms promised by the government “are not going fast enough”.