Farmers Protest LIVE: French Farmers Rally Against Mercosur Trade Talks & Foreign Competition | N18G

French farmers block road near Paris with tractors | Farmers Protest LIVE: French Farmers Rally Against Mercosur Trade Talks & Foreign Competition | CNBC TV18
VELIZY-VILLACOUBLAY – French farmers block road near Paris with tractors, in protest against EU-Mercosur free trade deal and as French President Emmanuel Macron is on tour in Latin America.
French farmers plan nationwide protests Monday against an EU-Mercosur trade deal, fearing increased foreign competition. Anger has surged after poor harvests, livestock disease, and delays in promised reforms. Discontent echoes last winter's European protests over Ukrainian imports, with French farmers previously blocking highways for weeks.
Farmers will protest across France on Monday as the prospect of a trade deal between European and Mercosur countries sharpens discontent over foreign competition that fuelled a farming crisis earlier this year.
A push by the European Union and South America's Mercosur bloc to conclude long-running trade negotiations by the end of the year has rekindled anger in France.
Similar frustration was voiced by farmers across Europe last winter after a surge in imports from Ukraine following Russia's invasion

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