Overview

• FNSEA and Jeunes Agriculteurs lead tractor convoys, supermarket checks and rallies across France, including a morning gathering at Versailles and operations in cities such as Dijon, Blois, Charleville-Mézières and Grenoble.
• Thursday saw early symbolic actions, including a Buffalo Grill blockade near Vesoul and manure dumped outside the Maison de l'Europe in Dijon, with additional gatherings reported at daybreak in Strasbourg.
• The actions are designed as visible but limited protests, with turnout constrained by harvest and vendange season and organizers framing this as a first step toward possible larger mobilizations.
• Union strategies diverge despite shared opposition to the pact, with Coordination rurale seeking a meeting with Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu instead of joining the day’s actions and the Confédération paysanne calling a separate Paris protest on October 14.
• The European Commission has advanced an amended text with reinforced safeguards that still requires approval by EU member states and the European Parliament by a timeline it hopes to complete by late December, while farmers also denounce U.S. tariffs and non‑reciprocal import standards.