STRAIGHT. Farmers’ anger: a tractor convoy in Strasbourg, actions planned elsewhere in France

About 25 agricultural tractors from the Rural Coordination are heading towards Strasbourg this morning to denounce the free trade agreement with Mercosur.

This text will lead to “an agriculture that does not suit us in the territory”, explained Frédéric Ferrand, secretary of the Haute-Saône Rural Coordination.

“This will produce a two-speed agriculture: food for the poor, because they will be forced to eat GMOs, and food for the rich, who will be able to buy food produced here, of superior quality,” he added.

On the way to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, about forty farmers from the Haute-Saône Rural Coordination intend to make themselves heard to denounce the free trade agreement with Mercosur.

“We want to tell (the European Commission) that it respects the vote of parliamentarians. There is clearly a denial of democracy by the European Commission. We want to denounce that,” explained Florian Dirand, president of the European Commission, on BFMTV. Rural coordination of Haute Saône.

In France, the political class declared itself unanimously against the treaty with Mercosur.

The prefects of Lot-et-Garonne and the Landes filed a complaint for the damage committed during the farmers’ mobilizations last week, as did the French Biodiversity Office in Creuse, we learned this Monday from the prefectures and the OFB .

The procedure marks a turn on the part of the prefect of Lot-et-Garonne, Daniel Barnier, who had decided not to take legal action in February, after the actions of the Rural Coordination in Agen had resulted in 400,000 euros in cleaning costs , according to the City Council, considering that the damages “were not significant.”

This Tuesday afternoon, the Minister of Agriculture, together with her counterpart delegate for Foreign Trade, Sophie Primas, will take the Government’s word to the National Assembly, where the treaty between the European Union and Mercosur will be debated and then voted on. .

Hello everyone and good morning. Welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to monitoring the peasant mobilization this Tuesday, November 26.

Rural Coordination, the second agricultural union, plans to “amplify” its mobilization beyond the southwest, where its actions have been concentrated until now. On Tuesday, the union plans a demonstration in front of the European Parliament. A procession of 25 tractors left Vesoul this Monday shortly after 6:00 p.m. to arrive in Strasbourg.

Opposed to free trade for decades, the Paysanne Confederation, the third representative union, also continues its mobilizations against Mercosur, with an action in the Dordogne during the day.