France's Macron wants EU to help on farmers' crisis


A banner reads "Macron answer us" as French farmers block a highway with their tractors during a protest over price pressures, taxes and green regulation, grievances shared by farmers across Europe, in Longvilliers, near Paris, France, January 30, 2024. REUTERS/Abdul Saboor

PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday said he wants the European Union to regulate chicken and grain imports from Ukraine and to allow flexibility on some of the bloc's farming rules to help soothe anger among French farmers.

Macron, speaking during a state visit to Sweden as farmers parked tractors across highways in France and set bales of hay ablaze to partly block access to Toulouse airport, also said he does not want a draft trade deal with the Mercosur bloc of South American countries to be signed as it stands now.

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