Following a week of peasant uprisings across Germany, disgruntled farmers in France protested against the globalist government of Emmanuel Macron, dumping fertilizer and setting fires to hay in Avignon and Toulouse on Tuesday. Ta.
As overregulation, inflation, and environmental policies take a toll on modern Europe's farmers' ability to make a living and, in turn, feed their people, genuine peasant revolts appear to be brewing across the continent. Recent protests in France have been over low payments to food producers by supermarket chains.
The tractors carried songs such as “No farmers, no food'' and “France, do you still want farmers?''local La Provence newspaper report. Footage posted to X by video journalist Clement Lanot showed farmers dumping mature agricultural waste and even waste. wine Some people set fire to hay bales on the streets of the city to express their anger.
There was also a brief clash when farmers tried to break into a supermarket chain. Farmers claim that they are inflating the prices of agricultural products and hogging the increased income.
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An estimated 450 tractors and other vehicles in three convoys also drove into Toulouse on Tuesday, scattering fertilizer and straw throughout the city. le figaro report.
Audrey Piazza, president of the Young Farmers of Vaucluse Said Broadcaster France 3 said, “If consumers pay 3 euros for a kilo of apples, producers will receive 30 or 40 cents.''
“I understand that there are middlemen, but at some point we should stop leaving behind the crumbs and let ourselves live on what we produce. Here is the Egalim method. should be utilized,” he added.
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— Clement Lanot (@ClementLanot) January 16, 2024
The Egalim method is passed it Last year, the French National Assembly attempted to give farmers more power in annual negotiations between producers and large retailers over the prices of their goods. But unions protesting in Avignon on Tuesday argued that the bill so far has failed to meaningfully increase the amount farmers receive.
“The Egalim law is supposed to protect us, but that's not what's happening at all,” said Sophie Vache, president of the Vaucluse National Federation of Farmers' Unions. “We're fed up. The overlapping regulations and everything that's been added means that today we can't take it anymore and we have to take to the streets.”
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— Clement Lanot (@ClementLanot) January 16, 2024
Florian Arnoux, a farmer from Cadrousse, said little consideration was given to the economic realities faced by farmers amid years of inflation and rising costs. I always end up needlessly exhausted. ”
French farmers have long protested against state interference in their ability to farm, and the latest protests in Avignon are part of a week of mass peasant civil disobedience in Germany. In response, farmers in Germany blocked major highways and cities. In December, Prime Minister Olaf Scholz's left-wing government announced that it would end the 70-year-old agricultural fuel tax exemption system to fill a gap in the federal budget, while also increasing funding for the war in Ukraine.
Farmers across Europe are also becoming pioneers in opposing environmental protection policies imposed by the EU, particularly in the Netherlands, against government attempts to close thousands of farms to comply with environmental regulations. Farmers have been holding large-scale tractor protests for a long time. Brussels.
Protests in the Netherlands led to the formation of the populist Peasant Citizen Movement party, which last year became the largest state force, the No. 1 party in the Dutch Senate and a potential coalition partner in President Geert Wilders' government. expensive.
Peasant revolution: Globalist government must leave, German protesters demand as farmers set deadline for Scholzhttps://t.co/eBSdKvUXSn
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) January 16, 2024
