Despite announcements, the agricultural crisis takes root in France before a European summit. The blockades continue on Thursday February 1, particularly around Paris, where the police are controlling access to the Rungis market.
Several hundred tractors should converge in Brussels, according to the organizers. The main Italian agricultural union confederation, Coldiretti, announced that it would go there with a thousand of its members to denounce "the madness which threatens agriculture" The French President will meet before 10 a.m. with the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.