what to fear as a complication on the roads?

Farmers will continue to protest next week. What actions can and will they take?

Anger does not abate among French farmers. After blocking certain strategic traffic points in recent days, the operation has been renewed for next week. It will take place from Tuesday 26 to Thursday 28 November. What can we expect next week?

Large areas blocked, highways blocked, radars moved…

As in recent days, you will sometimes have to be patient to be able to travel on certain roads in France. Highways are expected to once again be blocked. Particularly on European routes where heavy goods vehicle traffic in transit is significant. Thus, the Franco-Spanish border and the A9 motorway should still be impacted by a blockade. However, private vehicles should, like this week, be authorized to pass. In the columns from Actu.fr, the boss of the Coordination rurale 31 (CR31), warned that he would stay there “indefinitely”until “the State speaks to us and tells us things that will work”.

For its part, the National Federation of Agricultural Operators’ Unions (FNSEA), through its president Arnaud Rousseau announced on the antennas from France Info, for next week, that ““In each department, those responsible for the JA and the FNSEA will target constraints or obstacles that they consider important. It could be representatives of the State, agencies, it is they who will decide.” This means that everywhere in France, prefectures, large supermarkets and roundabouts could be very difficult to access. Waste or manure deposits could also be installed in front of the doors. Radars could even, like this nightbe moved in front of administrative buildings.

Anger of farmers: city centers impacted?

But next week, cities could also be hit by farmers’ anger. The FDSEA 66 and the Young Farmers (JA), are calling, on their social networks, for a mobilization on Tuesday, November 26 in the Pyrénées-Orientales, with tractors and skips filled with plants, to parade through the streets of Perpignan. The meeting is scheduled for 8 a.m. Tractors are expected at the Perpignan exhibition center, at the Pollestres carpooling area and around the Thuir stadium. At 9 a.m., the tractors should all meet in front of the Maison de l’Agriculture, before heading towards the prefecture.

All these gatherings are due mainly because of the free trade agreement signed between the European Union and the Latin American countries of Mercosur. French farmers are opposed. They complain about the paradox between ever more restrictive French standards and the importation of agricultural products which are subject to much fewer environmental constraints. Particularly in terms of the use of pesticides. But this is not the only demand of the farmers. They also campaign, among other things, against unfair competition from imported products and for a decent wage.