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The Peasant Confederation called on Tuesday January 30 in the evening “to block purchasing centers” of mass distribution and “target predators of peasant income”. The third agricultural union, classified on the left, believes that Gabriel Attal’s general policy speech did not offer “no commitment (…) to open work on the ban on purchasing below the cost price of our agricultural products”. As a result, the union “calls for mobilizations to be directed by blocking the places where this pressure on our prices is exerted: purchasing centers (logistics platform for large-scale distribution), wholesale markets, agri-food industries and other predators of value”.
Farmers unconvinced by Gabriel Attal. After the Prime Minister’s speech, the farmers who blocked the A6 near Villabé (Essonne) decided to move closer to Paris and move to Chilly-Mazarin (Essonne), less than 20 kilometers from the capital , Franceinfo learned from the organizers on site. “We still don’t know where [Gabriel Attal] wants to go to the level of agriculture”for his part reacted on franceinfo Rémi Dumas, national vice-president of Young Farmers.
“CAP aid paid into farmers’ bank accounts” by March 15. This is the commitment that Gabriel Attal made during his general policy speech. “We will unlock new resources with an emergency fund before the end of the week to support our wine growers, particularly in Occitanie”, added the Prime Minister. “A major control plan for product traceability” is also launched “from today” For “guarantee fair competition”.
Emmanuel Macron says he wants to “regulate” poultry imports from Ukraine. This is one of the demands of certain farmers and breeders who have been mobilizing in France for several days. Emmanuel Macron announced that he wanted “regulate” the arrival “from a poultry which was much cheaper coming from Ukraine”. Professionals in the sector denounce unfair competition from products which are not subject to the same health and environmental rules.
Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau will be in Brussels this Wednesday. The government promised that “new measures” would be announced on Tuesday to calm the anger of farmers, who are demanding in particular a reduction in European constraints on their activity or the establishment of mirror clauses to impose the same requirements on imported products.
Law enforcement encouraged to act with “moderation”. The government announced that 15,000 members of the police were mobilized to prevent tractors from entering “Paris and the big cities”. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin asked his troops to act with “moderation”.
Spanish farmers join the protest movement. The country’s three main unions say they will carry out a series of “mobilizations” throughout the country during the “next weeks”. They denounce difficult conditions and stifling bureaucracy generated by European regulations.