Overview
- Coordination Rurale dismantled its high-profile barricades on the A63 at Cestas and on the A64 at Pau and Briscous on December 26 after talks with the Pyrénées-Atlantiques prefect.
- Road authorities began clean-up and reopenings, with the A63 set to resume in reduced mode at 6 a.m. Saturday and one A64 direction already back in service as some Pau interchanges remain closed for debris removal.
- Major holdouts persist, including the A64 blockade at Carbonne south of Toulouse and an A75 shutdown extended to roughly 100 km after Aveyron and Lozère sites were unified.
- The union says the mobilization will pause for the holidays and resume in early January, calling on supporters to return "even stronger" after the break.
- The dispute centers on demands to end whole-herd culling for bovine lumpy skin disease, a policy the Agriculture Ministry says cannot be revised under the current protocol of culling, vaccination and movement limits.