France Wants EU Law Changes ‘This Week’ to Help Protesting Farmers -Minister

PARIS (Reuters) – France wants a decision this week to change EU nature law regulations regarding agricultural surfaces which have to remain fallow under new biodiversity rules, in order to help the country’s farmers, said French farming minister Marc Fesneau on Monday.

Fesneau also told France 2 TV that the government, under pressure from nationwide farmers’ protests, was still working on other concessions they could give to farmers in the coming 48 hours to improve their working conditions.

(Reporting by Tassilo Hummel; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)

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