{"id":10835,"date":"2025-12-15T13:39:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/french-government-seeks-to-quell-farmer-anger-as-mercusor-deadline-approaches\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:39:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:39:30","slug":"french-government-seeks-to-quell-farmer-anger-as-mercusor-deadline-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/french-government-seeks-to-quell-farmer-anger-as-mercusor-deadline-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"French government seeks to quell farmer anger as Mercusor deadline approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article__media\"> <picture class=\"article__media\">  <\/picture> <noscript>  <\/noscript><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Farmers blocking the A64 national highway near Carbonne in southern France, December 13, 2025.  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">MORGAN FACHE\/DIVERGENCE FOR LE MONDE<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">It is a high-risk week for France&#8217;s government. In addition to a budget debate at risk of stalling, anger is mounting in the farming sector. Protests by cattle breeders show no sign of easing against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/france\/article\/2025\/12\/12\/french-forces-use-tear-gas-to-disperse-protesters-protecting-condemned-cows_6748418_7.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the government&#8217;s plan to contain the spread of the virus causing nodular dermatitis, also known as lumpy skin disease<\/a>, which first appeared in the Alps in late June. Protocol requires the systematic slaughter of herds as&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/politics\/article\/2025\/12\/15\/french-government-seeks-to-quell-farmer-anger-as-mercusor-deadline-approaches_6748513_5.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers blocking the A64 national highway near Carbonne in southern France, December 13, 2025.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actualitelibre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}