'Yesterday, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal spoke to the farmers"
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00:00 I am here along the A104, it is known here as La Francilienne, and it leads to Roissy
00:09 Charles de Gaulle, Paris's main airport.
00:13 These farmers here have decided to create a snail operation, as we call them here, which
00:18 means basically slow the traffic towards the airport in order to show their discontent.
00:25 Now yesterday, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal spoke to the farmers, telling them that indeed
00:31 there would be administrative simplification, that also the tax break on diesel for agricultural
00:40 vehicles would be maintained.
00:42 Now that has calmed many of the farmer unions, but still many others consider that the fight
00:48 is not over.
00:50 In one of the federations, the Young Farmer Association say that what they want to do
00:56 now is block Paris and its immediate suburbs in the night from Sunday to Monday.