{"id":12519,"date":"2025-12-20T15:41:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/french-government-calls-for-christmas-truce-in-farmer-protests\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T15:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:41:20","slug":"french-government-calls-for-christmas-truce-in-farmer-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/french-government-calls-for-christmas-truce-in-farmer-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"French government calls for Christmas truce in farmer protests"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PARIS – The French government on Friday (Dec 19) called for a Christmas truce with protesting farmers, warning against further blockades during the holiday season, a move the country’s main union said depended on the prime minister’s response to their demands.<\/p>\n

Farmers have been blocking roads, dumping manure and holding demonstrations in France for over a week to protest against the government’s management of cattle lumpy skin disease and a trade deal with the South American bloc Mercosur.<\/p>\n

Farmers gathered with tractors early on Friday in front of President Emmanuel Macron’s residence in the seaside resort of Le Touquet in northern France, placing a coffin labelled “RIP Agri” and “NO Mercosur”.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in the southern town of Avignon, farmers threw potatoes at public buildings.<\/p>\n

Protesters argue that the government’s policy of culling an entire herd when lumpy skin disease is detected is excessive and cruel. They also claim the EU-Mercosur deal, whose signing has been postponed to January, would allow massive imports of products not meeting French standards.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu was holding meetings with the main farm unions. The head of the FNSEA, the country’s largest, said Lecornu committed to sending a letter by evening with answers to a range of agricultural issues.<\/p>\n

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“This letter will be decisive,” FNSEA Chairman Arnaud Rousseau told reporters, adding that the union would then make a decision on whether to suspend the protests.<\/p>\n

Unions Coordination Rurale and Confederation Paysanne, which had been leading the blockades, said they would let farmers in each region decide whether to continue protests.<\/p>\n

“We are very disappointed,” Stephane Galais, spokesperson of the Confederation Paysanne, said after meeting Lecornu. “The decision will be taken locally, but I’ll tell you this: we can’t remove the blockades.”<\/p>\n

Galais said there had been no progress towards ending total slaughtering as a strategy to contain lumpy skin disease.<\/p>\n

Young Farmers union President Pierrick Horel said members would observe a Christmas truce.<\/p>\n

Government spokesperson Maud Bregeon said on RTL radio that the government would no longer tolerate further blockades and would do “everything necessary” to avoid them.<\/p>\n

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PARIS – The French government on Friday (Dec 19) called for a Christmas truce with protesting farmers, warning against further blockades during the holiday season, a move the country’s main union said depended on the prime minister’s response to their demands. Farmers have been blocking roads, dumping manure and holding demonstrations in France for over…<\/p>\n

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