several road blockages still in progress Tuesday evening

From Vendée to Lot-et-Garonne, roads were still blocked Tuesday evening by farmers to protest against government measures on lumpy skin disease.

In the midst of the farmers’ crisis, Emmanuel Macron received agricultural unions on Tuesday, December 23 in the afternoon to talk about the EU-Mercosur agreement to which they are opposed; the subject of bovine dermatosis will be difficult to avoid given the road blockages that persist on the ground.

Indeed, a demonstration is still underway on Tuesday north of Dijon, in Côte-d’Or (at the Toison d’or roundabout) since Tuesday 10:30 a.m. at the call of the Departmental Federation of Agricultural Operators’ Unions (FDSEA) and Young Farmers, reports HERE Burgundy. They are mobilized against the agreement with Mercosur. Traffic is disrupted and the Côte-d’Or prefecture has put in place restrictions for heavy goods vehicles.

In VendéeAround fifty farmers installed a filter barrier on Tuesday at the Boufféré roundabout, the entry point to the A83 near Montaigu, at the call of Rural Coordination.

Farmers from the Rural Coordination of Doubs and the Territoire de Belfort have set up a filter dam on the RN19 in Héricourt (Haute-Saône), using around twenty tractors to denounce both the government strategy for lumpy skin disease (LCD) and the EU-Mercosur agreement, report HERE Belfort-Montbéliard And HERE Besançon.

Several road blockages also continue in the southwest, reports the ICI network. In particular, the A64 is still blocked between Toulouse and Bayonne at Carbonne (Haute-Garonne). On the A64, further west, in the Basque Country, the Basque agricultural union Euskal Herriko Laborarien Batasuna (ELB) has lifted its call to block the highway in Urt. In GirondeOn the other hand, the A63 remains blocked at Cestas, south of Bordeaux.

Blockages also continue on the N124 between Toulouse and Auch (Gers) and the N21, between Lourdes (Hautes-Pyrénées) and Agen (Lot-et-Garonne) in the south-north direction.

Around fifty farmers gathered in Cussac-sur-Loire, in Haute-Loiresince 10 a.m. Tuesday, reports HERE Saint-Étienne-Loire (formerly France Bleu). The breeders responded to a call from the Haute-Loire Peasant Confederation. They left the scene at 5 p.m. Tuesday.

Access to the A51 towards Grenoble is blocked in Monestier-de-Clermont (Isère), by around twenty farmers who have been sleeping there since Sunday. The latter, however, announced the end of the blockade on Tuesday afternoon, according to HERE Isère.

The prefecture of Cantal also announces the end of the blockage of the Lioran tunnel, closed for a week, reports HERE Pays d’Auvergne. It is now open to traffic again.

In theInternalthe hundred farmers from the Rural Coordination who met on Monday near Argenton-sur-Creuse, left on Tuesday afternoon from the Saint-Marcel roundabout, which they occupied, reports HERE Berry.

In Aubagne in the Bouches-du-Rhônearound a hundred farmers gathered (on the Solans roundabout) early Tuesday morning, also reports HERE Provence. The action ended around 9am.