Farmers in France want to continue protesting despite government aid promises. Although the road closures will be temporarily lifted, they will be resumed at the beginning of next week, said Pierrick Hore, general secretary of the Young Farmers Union, on radio station RMC. The head of the FNSEA, France’s largest agricultural union in France FNSEA, is also sticking to the mobilization.
There are many demands to which the Prime Minister has not responded, said Arnaud Rousseau on the television channel TF1. What was said did not appease the anger, one had to move on. Today, numerous motorway entrances across the country were still blocked.
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal made far-reaching promises of aid to farmers in the face of days of protests. These included, among other things, the withdrawal of taxation on agricultural diesel and emergency aid of 100 million euros for farmers and the organic sector hit by storms.
Rousseau particularly regretted that nothing had been disclosed about farmers’ pensions, which he said were among the weakest. Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau promised further measures on the radio station France Info this Saturday.
