French farmers keep Paris roadblock threat as protests endure

French farmers maintained nationwide protests on Saturday and kept their threat of roadblocks around Paris, arguing government measures to quell the demonstrations did not go far enough to meet their demands for better pay and living conditions.
On Friday, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal’s government dropped plans to gradually reduce state subsidies on agricultural diesel, and announced other steps aimed at reducing the financial and administrative pressures faced by many farmers.
Yet the FNSEA, France’s biggest farming union, said it would keep up its protests and many farmers remained at roadblocks set up by motorways and major roads on Saturday.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal will visit a farmers’ site on Sunday, said Attal’s office, as the government tries to prevent the protests from gaining in momentum.