Paris, (EFE).- European policies are one of the main reasons for criticism from French farmers who rallied for five days and who promised to continue their protests at least throughout this week.
Arnaud Rousseau, head of the sector's main professional organization in France, the National Federation of Agricultural Exploitation Unions (FNSEA), warned on Monday that “there will be measures throughout the week and for as long as necessary.”
In an interview with France Inter radio, Rousseau explained that what the mobilization spreading across the country demonstrates is “sincerity,” and that “what the farmers want is to give their craft a semblance of dignity again,” to speak to the question. income and competitiveness.
Germany, the Netherlands and Romania also protested
Referring to the protests that are also spreading in other countries such as Germany, the Netherlands and Romania, he stressed that “the common basis is a lack of understanding of the current European framework.”
He spoke specifically about “the Green Deal, the Green Deal that clearly has a vision of reducing growth because it implies that we reduce our production in Europe when imports rise.”
He denounced the “lack of understanding of what is required of farmers” because, on the one hand, it was emphasized that production must be done to feed the population, but the European consumer demands quality and naturalness and at the same time increases consumption. of products from abroad.
Cohesion of the French Agricultural Union
The head of the first French agricultural union believes that there is a lack of “coherence” in European decisions.
He said: “You cannot have, on the one hand, trade agreements (that allow the import of) products with production conditions that we do not have, and on the other hand, French agriculture, recognized as one of the most sustainable regions, requires it to have production conditions, production that producers cannot Bear it.”
Since last Thursday, groups of farmers with their tractors have been blocking the A64 motorway between Toulouse and Tarbes, with vehicles spilling out.
Others joined them in different parts of France. Dozens of tractors gathered on Monday south of Perpignan, with the aim of organizing work that might affect the A9 highway, which connects from the Spanish border. Something similar was organized at the entrances to the Gullevich nuclear power plant, southeast of the city of Agen.
To confront this crisis, which seems to be spreading and has many political repercussions, less than five months before the European elections, the French Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, will receive this afternoon, starting at six in the evening, senior officials of the FNSEA and young farmers. Evie
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