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After meeting with the largest farmers union FNSEA, French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal met with Rural Coordination, France's 2nd largest farming union. Its president, Veronique Le Floch, said it was "catastrophic" that the Prime Minister had not yet made any emergency announcements, while farmers continued to express their anger throughout France, in a protest that was mourned by the death of a farmer in Ariège, hit by a car at a roadblock. IMAGES
France's new Culture Minister Rachida Dati visits the town of Nontron in the Dordogne region of south-west France to discuss the role of culture in rural areas. She visited the experimental arts and crafts centre, one of the winners of the "France 2030 Culture" call for projects, and in particular a cutlery factory. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne boards a boat to visit a river checkpoint and the remote village of Opoya-Taluen in French Guiana, as part of a New Year visit to highlight the French authorities' fight against illegal mining in this overseas territory. IMAGES
Visiting Liglet, in south-east France, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne meets shopkeepers and local councillors to present her "France Ruralites" plan, which aims to combat the feeling of relegation and decline in public services that prevails in some rural areas. IMAGES
Nicolas Sarkozy, Claude Lelouch, Pierre Arditi and Line Renaud arrive at the Saint-Germain-des-Près church in Paris for a mass in memory of Bernard Tapie, who died on Sunday. IMAGES
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin arrives at the 'Maison des Missionnaires des Montfortains' in the Vendée region, where a priest was killed in a religious community by a man who was staying there. The perpetrator, the alleged arsonist of Nantes cathedral - set alight in July 2020 - later went turned himself in to police. IMAGES