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

PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday tried to soothe the anger of protesting farmers by calling on the European Union to regulate agricultural imports from Ukraine and loosen farming rules. Macron, speaking on a visit to Sweden as farmers parked tractors across highways in France and set ablaze bales of hay on the road to Toulouse airport, also rejected a draft trade deal with the Mercosur bloc of South American countries in its current form. The French protests follow si

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