agricultural unions announce a meeting with Emmanuel Macron Tuesday afternoon on the EU-Mercosur agreement

“The message from the FNSEA to the President of the Republic will remain unchanged, firm and clear: Mercosur = NO,” declared the majority union.

A meeting at the Elysée before Christmas. The FNSEA, Young Farmers, Rural Coordination and the Peasant Confederation will be received on Tuesday December 23 at 4:30 p.m. by President Emmanuel Macron on the EU-Mercosur agreement, the various unions announced. “The message from the FNSEA to the President of the Republic will remain unchanged, firm and clear: Mercosur = NO”declared the majority union in a statement to AFP, a position which is unanimous within the French agricultural world despite disparities between union organizations.

Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, meeting on Saturday in the Brazilian city of Foz do Iguaçu, initially hoped to initial the treaty there, as did the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and most European countries. But this signature was ultimately postponed, facing the anger of European farmers, particularly in France and Italy. Several thousand farmers demonstrated in Brussels on Thursday to protest against the text.

In France, eleven days after the start of the angry movement of farmers in the South-West, the mobilization continues at the last roadblocks. In Carbonne, south of Toulouse, on the dam on the A64, theBreeders are still demanding an end to the systematic slaughter of herds when a case of dermatosis is reported and the rejection of the free trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur. They swear that they will spend Christmas on the A64 if they do not win their case.