French Farmer Protests Show the Rest of the West, the Way By Richard Miller (London)
French farmers, with the "siege of Paris," are showing the West, suffering from the ill effects of the same globalist policies, how it is done. The farmers sought to block off entrances to Paris as a protest about the climate change alarmist policies which are destroying agriculture. Ultra-woke President Macron moved to talks for the farmer's demands, but many of the restrictions come from the EU overlords. But Macron was by the EU side in putting these regulations into place. And if the regulations can be put up, they can be torn down again.
The lesson here for Australia is if you don't fight, you lose, and now our way of life is at stake.
"Kicking off the "Siege of Paris" on Monday, thousands of farmers took to their tractors in a coordinated attempt to block off entrances to the French capital in protest against globalist green policies they say are destroying their ability to stay in business.
In an escalation of the latest example of popular uprisings that have come to define President Macron's tenure in office, farmers descended in their tractors to shut down major highways leading into Paris on Monday following a week of similar protests throughout the country.
According to the Le Figaro newspaper, farmers successfully enacted blockades on eight major highways, with tractors lined up for tens of kilometres around the ring road surrounding Paris. In total 16 highways and 30 administrative departments around the city were impacted by the demonstrations on Monday, while separate farmer uprisings continued in at least 40 other locations throughout the country.
President Emmanuel Macron will reportedly hold an emergency meeting with his government ministers at the Élysée on Monday to be briefed on the "overview of the agricultural situation". Meanwhile, Gabriel Attal, who was installed as France's youngest-ever prime minister earlier this month by Macron, will reportedly hold crunch negotiations with the leader of the FNSEA farmer's union Arnaud Rousseau and the head of the Young Farmers Arnaud Gaillot on Monday evening.
The "Siege of Paris" was called for over the weekend after Prime Minister Attal's attempts to quell the anger of the farmers with several "concessions" were rejected for not going far enough.
It is unclear exactly how many of the farmer's 140 demands the French government can actually meet, given that many of the stifling green agenda regulations were imposed by the EU. However, farmers groups and populist politicians have noted that Macron's party in Brussels was a principal backer of the climate change cause and, therefore, is still to blame.
Speaking from a blockade outside Paris on Monday, the president of the FDSEA farmer's union in Yvelines, Luc Janottin said: "We want to tell Mr Attal that he must work for his subjects rather than going for walks on the farms. France could suspend overnight all the environmental standards that complicate our lives and we expect it to do so!"
Janottin said that the purpose of the protests was not to "annoy motorists" and that the farmers would allow people to move through the blockades, saying: "The Paris blockade is just an image. We are not going to completely stop people from moving around. Above all, we want to show our presence, to say that we are tired of doing paperwork rather than our job."
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