Charles Luylier (correspondent in Toulouse) / Photo credit: GREGORY DZIEDZIC / HANS LUCAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP 9:30 a.m., March 18, 2024

While the FNSEA announced that it would not attend a meeting with the Élysée this Tuesday, some farmers are resuming demonstrations.

The government is struggling to keep the commitments it made more than a month ago and aid is waiting for farms that are running out of steam.

Towards an Act II of farmers' demonstrations?

The FNSEA will not go to the Élysée this Tuesday, pushing to postpone the meeting.

“The conditions for an end to the crisis are not met,” said Arnaud Rousseau, the president of the powerful union.

Farmers want all their demands to be met.

However, for the moment, the government is struggling to keep its commitments.

In Toulouse, Young Farmers are calling for a demonstration this Monday morning to demand payment of European aid, as promised by Gabriel Attal.

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“We will remain mobilized as much as necessary”

The latter should arrive from the four corners of the region.

A large-scale demonstration on the horizon?

For the moment, no one knows.

The farmers met mid-morning in front of the CAP aid payment center, the Common Agricultural Policy.

A meeting is planned there with the director of the center.

A moment eagerly awaited by Mathieu Maronese, member of the Young Farmers union.

“The price of our production is falling. Our treasuries are in the red and this aid, which should have arrived months ago, is still not there. The State is playing with fire because in the meantime, controls continue "We will remain mobilized as much as necessary. As long as all the announcements and promises made a few weeks ago are not honored," he declared at the microphone of Europe 1. In the region, they remained mobilized: for two weeks, some have been drawing “red lines” in front of their farms, symbol of a border erected against controls deemed abusive.

Now, starting this Monday morning, they are moving up a gear.