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Protesting French farmers lift blockade after Government announces new measures

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European farmers have found themselves in an extremely unfriendly environment with canceled diesel fuel subsidies, an influx of cheap grain from Ukraine, and new regulations that have seriously limited their space for maneuver.

Protesting French farmers are gradually ending their blockade around Paris and nationwide following the government’s announcement of over €400 million in measures to address their concerns about low earnings, strict regulations, and unfair competition from abroad, AP News reports.

Tractor convoys started leaving the sites as the farmers dismantled tents and cleared barricades under police supervision.

Arnaud Rousseau, president of the largest farmers union, FNSEA, spoke to a local news outlet and expressed a willingness to engage with the government’s proposals, stating “we now want to work” and take “concrete” steps in the coming weeks.

Regardless, he warned that the union would closely monitor the government’s actions and indicated a readiness to protest again, particularly as the country prepares for the Paris Olympics this summer.

In response to earlier unsuccessful attempts to appease the demonstrating farmers, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal unveiled some new measures on Thursday. The package includes substantial financial aid, tax breaks, and a commitment not to ban certain pesticides in France.

Attal specified financial support, including €150 million in aid for livestock farmers, decreased taxes on farm transfers between generations, and €80 million in emergency assistance for struggling wine producers. Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau spoke after Attal declared a €2 billion loan package for new farmers.

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  1. The globalists want to eliminate the farmers ability to farm so that less food is produced and then we starve to death. That is the intent: We are the carbon that they wish to reduce, the “useless eaters”.

    We’ve seen it all in different countries: Stopping farmers farming with punitive laws or fines, seizing land with eminent domain, or rich people buying arable land and doing nothing with it.

    • Yeah, I don’t trust any of it. Don’t think the farmers should either.

      The establishment are hellbent on agenda 2030. They’ll quietly cancel the promised tax breaks over the next year or two. Hyperinflation will cut into all those nice subsidies they’re offering. And rather than banning that particular pesticide, they’ll just spike the price so high nobody can afford it.

  2. https://youtu.be/ZF3Y6fwLInY?si=G0745LjfEhiqnJPM

    Far from finished. This is a video from Asselineau ( politician frexit and out of NATO/BCE- EURO) ( Youtubestudio for subtittels).
    Farmers have been lied to again !!. It is probably the beginning of the revolt.
    Wait and see. Everybody is fed up with the US subsidiary that has become the EU led by this horrible witch von der leyen

  3. The WEF WHO is trying to engineer a world wide famine
    In conjunction with compromised immune systems
    Caused by fake vaccines

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