2024-01-25 18:31:32
FRANCE – When the FNSEA turns over the signs of the villages of France, where Arnaud Rousseau, its president, an industrialist with multiple conflicts of interest, enriches himself between two visits to the Élysée, the police open the way for farmers to go and deposit manure in front of a prefecture, that the mainstream media have started to reverse their logos… should we ask ourselves?
Who manipulates whom, and who will benefit from the crime? The question can be asked. Farmers demonstrate and France-Soir don’t forget them. We are attached to those whom the Republic has neglected for years, the very people who feed us.
Anger is brewing and the situation is getting tense day by day. Numerous demonstrations and road blockages have been reported from one region to another, illustrating the general discontent of farmers, who are increasingly supported by the population. Nearly 8 out of 10 French people according to Odoxa.
While the government recognizes the seriousness of the situation, it believes that the anger expressed by farmers is partly due to a feeling of relegation, contempt and downgrading. The government’s announcements, while under the auspices of the Republic, we grant ourselves some small increases, in the Assembly, for example, which decides to increase the mandate costs of 305 euros. More than a clumsiness…
Peasant Europe seems to be falling apart
In addition, the protest movement was bereaved by a tragic incident in Ariège, where a farmer and her 12-year-old daughter were killed after being hit by a car at a roadblock.
This rural anger arrives in France after Germany, Poland, the Netherlands… Peasant Europe seems to be shaking off. If, in Poland, farmers recently lifted a blockade after signing an agreement with the government, in Germany and the Netherlands, the protest is intensifying and the standoff across the Rhine could well shake up those in power.
These events reflect the challenges and frustrations faced by farmers in the current context, marked by strong economic, environmental and political pressures.
If the National Federation of Farmers’ Unions (FNSEA) has played a central role in the current protest movement in France, it seems increasingly disconnected from the base, from those who really suffer and do not recognize themselves in a union of large owners close to power.
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