European policy is one of the main reasons for criticism, but it is also mobilized by the delay in the provision of certain government support, the planned end of the subsidy for agricultural diesel, the implementation of new environmental standards and the increase in costs.
The delay in delivery of some government supportthe planned end of the agricultural diesel subsidythe implementation of new environmental standards of the European Union and the costs increase or the prices imposed by the agro-food industries are the main complaints of farmers and ranchers.
Trade unions complain about what they see as a lack of coherence in legislation European policywhich on the one hand allow imports thanks to trade agreements such as those recently concluded with New Zealand, while at the same time imposing increasing environmental and health regulations that increase their costs and make them less competitive.
The farmers of Iparralde have joined the protests of their colleagues from other European countries, such as Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and Romania. Groups of farmers block the A-63, near Baiona.
“We want them to listen to us. We have demands, but for now there will be no movement. We will stay here until they start moving,” said the farmers who blocked the highway.
European policy, center of criticism
The European policy is one of the main reasons for criticism from farmers who have been mobilizing for days and who promise to continue their protests in any case during this week.
“Actions will take place throughout the week and for as long as necessary,” Arnaud Rousseau, president of the sector’s main professional organization in France, the National Federation of Agricultural Exploitation Associations (FNSEA), warned on Monday.
Rousseau has explained that this is illustrated by the mobilizations spreading throughout the country “the saturation” and that ‘farmers want their craft to take shape dignitytalks about the issue of income and competitiveness”.
He has “the incomprehension of what is asked of farmers”, because, although on the one hand it is confirmed that we must produce to feed the population, the European consumer demands quality and naturalness and at the same time increases income from products from abroad. There is one for the person responsible for the first French agricultural union lack of “coherence” in European decisions.
“You cannot, on the one hand, have trade agreements,” he said, “that allow the import of products with production conditions that are not ours and that, on the other hand, require French agriculture, recognized as one of the most sustainable, to have production conditions.” production that the producers cannot tolerate”.
Source: EITB
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