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With five days to go until the Paris Agricultural Show, angry farmer sin the north of France are keeping the pressure on the French government, driving a hundred tractors on main roads near Dunkirk. With five days to go until the Paris Agricultural Show, angry farmers in the north of France are driving a hundred tractors on main roads near Dunkirk. At the call of the unions FDSEA 59 and the Young Farmers, they are heading towards the regional authority on environment, planning and housing in Gravelines to protest a project to extend the port of Dunkirk, which threatens to close down several farms. IMAGES
Farmers, protesting in France, block a border crossing with Belgium at Bettignies, in the Nord region, forcing traffic to turn back, as the French government attempts to dispel their unease and convince the protesters to call off their mobilisation. IMAGES
Another day of demonstrations by farmers in Rennes, while the government is eagerly awaited by the profession to come up with a response to their anger. IMAGES
Farmers organise a blockade of the A62 motorway near Agen in south-west France. Protests continue across France, the day after a meeting with the government of new French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and as a meeting of European ministers for the sector begins. IMAGES
French Farmers in the southern Occitanie region continue their blockade of part of the A64 motorway started on Thursday. French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal meets leaders of the powerful FNSEA farming union on Monday evening, a day after his agriculture minister announced a long-delayed reform package had again been postponed. Among farmers' grievances are the ever-increasing costs the sector faces and what they say is the choking effect of over-zealously imposed environmental regulations. IMAGES
2,022 ewes and 350 farmers from the Béarn region parade down the Champs-Elysées in Paris to close the 2022 International Agricultural Show. IMAGES
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