Europe shaken by farmers’ revolt


From France to Greece, the grievances of European farmers are similar: too many standards, too much unfair competition and little income. For the EU, the challenges posed by this crisis are immense, even though it has always considered the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as one of its great successes.

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The wave of protest from farmers who have been mobilized for several weeks in several European countries to denounce the precariousness of the profession, the multiplication of environmental standards, and unfair competition, has hit the continent.

So much so that this issue was in fact placed on the agenda of a summit of the Twenty-Seven organized in Brussels, where thousands of demonstrators from several countries and some 1,200 tractors invaded the streets of the European capital. .

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The French cartoonist Soulcié delivered his own illustrated version of this crisis in a drawing published in Télérama.

Born in 1983, Soulcié draws for l’Équipe, Marianne, Télérama, La Revue Dessinée and Fluide Glacial. He also works for the youth press (Images Docs, Géo Ado or Astrapi).

Cartooning for Peace is an international network of cartoonists committed to promoting, through the universality of press cartoons, freedom of expression, human rights and mutual respect between populations of different cultures or beliefs.

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