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French Farmer Protests: Global Spread of Unrest Threatens Elections
Nayla Razzouk, Kim Chipman, Lyubov Pronina, Pratik Parija
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Farmers’ Revolt Threatens Election Year Upsets Around the World
Agriculture has become a key battleground in a wider culture war over money, food and climate change.
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Eric Foucault is driving his hulking green tractor more slowly than he can walk. Shouting into his mobile phone above the cacophony of engines and horns, the farmer from south of Paris is one of 200 others clogging up the highway into the French capital.
Foucault and his fellow protesters are restless, their list of grievances long: soaring costs, increasing bureaucracy, new European Union regulations in its Green Deal and imports diluting their markets. “He who sows misery reaps anger,” says one of their placards
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