French farmers blockade the country and threaten to redouble protests if the Government does not respond to their demands

The french farmers They remain on a war footing and their main unions are determined to “increase the pressure by one degree” if they do not respond to their demands. They demand wage improvements, the reduction of environmental restrictions, aid against rising fuel prices and increased protection of the countryside against imports from other countries.

Meanwhile, Emmanuel Macron’s Government has guaranteed farmers that there will be no intervention by law enforcement, except in cases of violence. For his part, the French Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, has announced that will announce an “arsenal” of measures to respond to the farmers’ demands, but he has not specified any, he has only said that “the countryside will be a priority for your Government“.

The Ministers of Agriculture, Marc Fesneau, and of Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire, also met this Friday morning to follow up on the negotiations that farmers are carrying out until the 31st with industrialists and with distribution companies, supermarket and hypermarket chains.

For now, these movements have not managed to calm the spirits of the protesters. In fact, some of the protest organizers are redoubling theirs threats to block the main access roads to the capital. “We do not deprive ourselves of going to blockade Paris. We can block the highways, the major axes. We are determined to achieve very concrete measures,” declared this Friday Cyrille Milard, from the country’s first union, the National Federation of Agricultural Operators’ Unions ( FNSEA).

Before that happens, this pressure has already become evident this morning in several points around Paris, such as in Fontainebleau, in Meaux, and in particular in Senlis, where the A1 motorway, which goes in the direction of from Lille and Brussels.

Cuts that are repeated on dozens of other roads and sections of motorways throughout France, such as in Carbonne, on the A64 motorway south of Toulouse in the direction of Tarbes, where the movement began on Thursday of last week.

Spanish transporters are also suffering the consequences, because as part of their demonstration, French farmers stop and empty the load from the trucks. Some have been stuck on the roads for several days now, clogged by traffic cuts and barricades.

The truth is that French farmers are the last but not the only ones to mobilize. There is discontent in the European countryside and protests have already paralyzed roads in Poland, Lithuania and Romania and have also filled the streets in Germany. A malaise that fuels the extreme right in Europe.