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Feb 5, 2024 · Farmers relied on traders to ferry their produce to the big cities, giving the middlemen the power to set prices – which promptly plummeted. Growers made a show of destroying the surplus, dumping...
- Jessica Phelan
Feb 25, 2024 · Last month, French farmers launched a series of protests across the country, ranging from blocking highways with their tractors to dumping rotting vegetables (or worse) in city squares or...
- Robert Zaretsky
Jan 29, 2018 · Facing enforced mobilization, many communities of the French countryside considered revolutionary rule as a new tyranny, potentially more disenfranchising than their feudal experiences under the rule of former privilégiés. Thus, large rural areas of the northwest openly revolted against the Republic.
Feb 26, 2024 · Farmers in France, as in many other countries, wield a lot of political power — for historical and contemporary reasons. Their influence carries certain risks.
Jan 30, 2024 · French farmers blocked major highways to Paris on Monday as they pursue protests over a range of grievances, despite several measures announced by the government.
Jan 23, 2024 · French farmers have engaged in a standoff with the government to express anger over a perceived lack of respect, rising costs and suffocating EU regulation.
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Jan 31, 2024 · PARIS (AP) — Farmers have captured France’s attention by showering government offices with manure and besieging Paris with traffic-snarling barricades of tractors and hay bales. The farmers say their protests aren’t a moment too soon. Grievances have long been brewing in the European Union’s leading agricultural power.
