French farmers remove blockade of Lyon still product price war rages
- 9 years ago
French farmers have begun to remove the blockades from around the French city of Lyon, but the dispute over the price of beef, pork and milk is far from over.
On a normally busy motorway that links the south of the country to Paris and beyond farmers used tyres to send a message to the prime minister Manuel Valls.
Coming soon to USA! Dream2France StephClopin TLMLyon #French Strike #Farmers #Roads #Trip #france #South #Blockade pic.twitter.com/mX4AFy52Y7— Janie Johnson (jjauthor) July 23, 2015
It read “Valls we are waiting for you.”
The row has caused chaos and misery to many parts of France with unions threatening to return unless their demands are met.
Dominique Despras is from farming union FDSEA: “We are not being hard for the sake of it.I think the government is well aware of the problem even if it has reacted slowly, we’ve been warning it for three months that the agricultural economy is facing drastic change.”
French farmers protest low meat and milk prices, block roa
On a normally busy motorway that links the south of the country to Paris and beyond farmers used tyres to send a message to the prime minister Manuel Valls.
Coming soon to USA! Dream2France StephClopin TLMLyon #French Strike #Farmers #Roads #Trip #france #South #Blockade pic.twitter.com/mX4AFy52Y7— Janie Johnson (jjauthor) July 23, 2015
It read “Valls we are waiting for you.”
The row has caused chaos and misery to many parts of France with unions threatening to return unless their demands are met.
Dominique Despras is from farming union FDSEA: “We are not being hard for the sake of it.I think the government is well aware of the problem even if it has reacted slowly, we’ve been warning it for three months that the agricultural economy is facing drastic change.”
French farmers protest low meat and milk prices, block roa