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Montevideo, September 21st 2024 - 12:14 UTC

Tag: French farmers

  • Tuesday, May 21st 2024 - 10:50 UTC

    France and Germany split over the EU–Mercosur trade pact

    Macron doesn't want French farmers more furious; they've already brought the country to a standstill for weeks with their protests.

    By Oliver Pieper - The free trade deal between the European Union and the South American trade bloc Mercosur could become the world's largest agreement, involving a market of a total of 780 million people. But in late March, French President Emmanuel Macron not only described it as “a very bad agreement,” he even suggested it should be “left behind” and called for “a new agreement.”

  • Wednesday, August 14th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

    French farmers protest trade deals with Canada and Mercosur

    French farmers angry over EU trade deals with Canada and Mercosur

    French anti-government protesters put up a large poster of Jean-Baptiste Moreau, one of President Emmanuel Macron's farming experts, with the word “Wanted” on it outside a local government building on Tuesday, as anger over recent trade deals escalates.

  • Friday, February 26th 2016 - 07:46 UTC

    French farmers furious with low prices and storm shops selling foreign goods

    French farmers continue with demonstrations across the country, using their tractors to block traffic to burning egg boxes and hurling wellies at buildings.

    French government has been trying to defuse the week-long protests by farmers over the collapsing prices of agriculture including cereals, milk and vegetables.The depression of prices is partly due to EU agriculture ministers, who have come under pressure from the French government to ease Russian trade sanctions and to remove excess meat and dairy products off the European market.

  • Thursday, July 23rd 2015 - 08:18 UTC

    Protesting French farmers promised €600m of emergency government help

    “The demonstrations of the past few days underline an anger, an anxiety, a distress that we have seen for a long time”, said Manuel Valls, France’s PM

    Dramatic protests across the north of France have won the country’s farmers €600m of emergency government help. This week thousands of tractors blockaded motorways and brought cities to a standstill, as the plight of producers dominated the nation’s news.

  • Wednesday, July 22nd 2015 - 05:58 UTC

    French president to announce emergency measures in support of farmers

    “Beyond the issue of distribution and prices, I have asked that there should be an emergency plan for French livestock and dairy producers,” Hollande said

    President Francois Hollande has said he would unveil emergency measures to help France’s livestock and dairy farmers on Wednesday. Tuesday’s announcement came as as livestock farmers caused chaos in the north west of France, using tractors and trucks full of manure and rubble to block roads.