At an international agricultural event in Paris recently, farmers’ anger was met with action from riot police. French poultry producers blame increasing Ukrainian imports for their difficulties, there are widers challenges for farmers across the EU.
President Macron said that the French polultry association ANVOL has described chicken imports from Ukraine as “unfair competition.”
Ukrainian exporters are not to blame for the woes of farmers in France or in the EU generally, according to some comm entators.