Farmers’ movement: Franco-German demonstration against Mercosur in Strasbourg

“At the moment there is a lot of work“And yet French farmers, like Mattéo Gast, a farmer in Huttenheim (Bas-Rhin), are coming to the aid of their German neighbors.”We have other things to do than show. We must not give up now.” he said on the European Bridge on Monday, November 18. With him, 300 farmers came to demonstrate to raise awareness among European governments, many of them in favor of the free trade agreement.

For more than 25 years, the Mercosur treaty was negotiated between the European Union and five South American countries with the aim of facilitating imports and exports between the two continents thanks to lower customs duties. If France opposes this agreement, the response of other European governments is more certain. “Europe wants to export cars, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, even services to this market” provides Olivier Mevel, lecturer. A trade exchange that Italy, Spain or Germany would not want to do without.

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