Francois Hollande is expected to firm up Thursday morning at Dijon, where he will defend agricultural officials face an emergency plan for farmers struggling to convince, as demonstrated by the persistence of roadblocks, including entries Lyon. The meeting, which was added to a movement originally devoted to viticulture, will be held at 9 am at the prefecture. Among the interlocutors included President Jean-Pierre Fleury, president of the Federation Nationale Bovine, also breeder in Côte-d’Or, Bernard Lacour, president of the FDSEA of Saône-et-Loire, and Samuel Legrand, President of Young Farmers of Burgundy.
Faced since last weekend to a growing protest, the government announced Wednesday an emergency plan has more than EUR 600 million for farmers in trouble. Its objectives are to raise the prices paid to farmers, as for pork for beef, and loosen the grip of the debt of farmers. The state will thus engage with banks to restructure all medium and long term debt.
Measures “insufficient” (Unions)
There have, however, raised Reactions mixed to say the least. The FNSEA agricultural union first, found itself government measures “insufficient” in the long term, even if they “can respond in the short term some emergency.” On the ground, the dams installed by breeders around Caen since Monday morning and where began the movement of anger began to be lifted Wednesday, but the movement has spread to other regions.
If the situation seemed calm in Brittany and in the north of the country, is in the center of the country that tension remains high. The three main access to Lyon were blocked Thursday morning by ranchers in the Rhône-Alpes region. The president of the FNSEA, Xavier Beulin, is expected late Thursday afternoon on the dam of the A6. Other actions are planned Thursday including Clermont-Ferrand and Burgundy, where the head of state is making. Wednesday, protest actions, often directed against supermarkets, had spread to the Franche-Comté, the Hautes-Pyrénées or the Corrèze.
“A comprehensive reform” (Le Foll)
All of the executive is now mobilized, anxious to avoid this crisis drags in the middle of summer, a few months regional elections. The Minister of Agriculture up to the plate in Libération dated Thursday to defend the government plan. Responding to a recurring criticism, it provides particular that beyond the emergency, the government has “laid the foundation for a profound reform” and that it is possible to “change farming model.”
The line “asleep while taking the first steps,” he accuses, also involving the 2009 plan Fillon government face the harsh criticism of the opposition. Prime Minister Manuel Valls, also mobilized, probably benefit from a shift in the southwest of France in the afternoon to further discuss agricultural topics, especially on the occasion of the visit of a laboratory veterinary pharmaceutical in Libourne (Gironde).
Tensions in the Assembly
The tension wins and strong political jousting between the opposition and the government on Wednesday to National Assembly, was there to testify. During a hectic session of questions to the Government, Manuel Valls is taken is strongly president of the group Republicans, Christian Jacob, denouncing his stance on the movement of livestock farmers who are not “worthy” or “the rise to the occasion “and support” populism “and” Poujadism. “
In his interpellation of the government, Christian Jacob, former agricultural union, had called the government plan” com operation ” a “charade” and “lie” or a “hoax.” The party chairman Republicans and former head of the state, Nicolas Sarkozy, for his part considered that the plan is “not up to the crisis of French agriculture” and “does not meet the deficit competitiveness ahead “. The leader of the Socialist MPs, Bruno Le Roux, responded by denouncing the opposition “maximalist and outrageous” of Nicolas Sarkozy, who is “a caricature of himself.”
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