French farmers have vowed to blockade Paris and keep up national protests despite Prime Minister Gabriel Attal offering concessions such as the scrapping of an unpopular diesel tax increase.
“We have made the decision to keep up the movement,” Arnaud Rousseau, the head of the FNSEA, France’s largest farmers union, told the TF1 news channel. He added that the prime minister had not done enough to calm the anger of farmers. “The government must go further,” he said.
The protests in France, the biggest agricultural producer in the EU and a leading recipient of the bloc’s Common Agricultural Policy subsidies, have blocked motorways and targeted government buildings. They follow similar protests in Germany, Italy, Poland and Romania in recent weeks.