Farmers Block Roads Across Europe over Mercosur Deal

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Here you will find information on the topic of "World Trade". Read now "Bauern block before Mercosur-vote highway".

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Dozens of farmers from Picardy Wallonia, joined by French colleagues, on Thursday evening carried out a punching action by blocking Marquain's exchanger on the E42 to denounce the draft free trade agreement between the European Union and the Mercosur countries. ...

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Farmers and animal growers from the trade union Flemand Boerenbond have set up a traditional stand in front of the European Parliament from Brussels to value local production and ask the europeans to agree on the European Union's "inaccurate" trade agreement with Mercosur, the EEA Agency shall report.

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Several dozen farmers have decided to take the place in front of the Herault prefecture on Friday 8 January to press ahead of the vote in Brussels on the EU-EU free trade agreement.

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The ambassadors of the Member States of the European Union are called upon to discuss, starting at 11 a.m. this Friday in Brussels, and then to vote on the controversial free trade agreement between the EU and the Mercosur countries (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay), while farmers blocked several of the country's motorways. Discussed for more than 25 years, the agreement has to be approved by a qualified majority of the Twenty-seven, i.e. a…

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To denounce the agreement between the EU and Mercosur, farmers have chosen to cut Brussels off from the rest of the world. A huge mess is announced this Friday on the roads of the kingdom.