Farmers throughout France have organized large-scale protests on Monday against the trade accord between the European Union and the Mercosur bloc of South American nations.
'We are against the conclusion of an unbalanced treaty likely to destroy part of the French agricultural sector,' he told French financial newspaper La Tribune Dimanche.
Coordination Rurale, a union linked to the far right, has promised an 'agricultural revolt,' including food freight blockades beginning Tuesday in southwestern France.
French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated his long-standing opposition to the treaty, stating that France would not approve the agreement in its current form.
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