Overview

• FNSEA and Jeunes Agriculteurs organized a decentralized day of action on September 26 featuring supermarket inspections, tractor convoys, prefecture demonstrations and a morning rally at Versailles.
• Early actions on September 25 included a Buffalo Grill blockade in Pusey near Vesoul and manure and soil dumped outside the Maison de l’Europe in Dijon, with additional gatherings reported at Strasbourg.
• Union leaders target the Mercosur agreement, new U.S. tariffs under President Donald Trump and what they call imports that fail to meet French standards.
• Participation is constrained by the harvest and livestock health issues, leading organizers to favor awareness efforts and slowdowns over large-scale blockades.
• The European Commission presented reinforced safeguard clauses on September 3 and still seeks approval from EU member states and the European Parliament by year-end, while Coordination rurale presses for a meeting with the prime minister and the Confédération paysanne plans a Paris protest on October 14.