2024-02-05 17:58:44
Arnaud Rousseau, president of the FNSEA (center) speaks to the press, while farmers block the A6 motorway, in Nitry, in Yonne, on January 25. ARNAUD FINISTRE/AFP
STORY – Seeming overwhelmed at the start of the crisis, Arnaud Rousseau, president of the powerful union since April, set about channeling it. He obtained concessions from the Prime Minister.
“I don’t really know what sparked the spark.» This Monday, January 22, while tractors have been investing the A64 Toulouse-Bayonne since the previous Friday, Arnaud Rousseau struggles to explain the agricultural conflagration. Surprising, coming from the president of the FNSEA, the leading agricultural union in France. For more than two weeks, this anger will spread throughout France, from motorway blockages to damage to prefectures and attempts to blockade the Rungis market… which the union boss had nevertheless opposed.
Elected last April at the head of the very powerful union, the cereal grower who owns 700 hectares of land in Seine-et-Marne has just experienced a baptism of fire during which he could have burned his wings: the deepest agricultural crisis that the France has known since 1992 and the demonstrations against the reform of the common agricultural policy (CAP), which brought the tractors to the gates of Paris. This new eruptive anger took…
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