The European Parliament is expected to ratify the Mercosur trade agreement today<\/h5>\n\n\n\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/rmx.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2256696890.jpg\")
20 January 2026, France, Strasbourg: Farmers from various European countries protest in front of the European Parliament building against the trade agreement between the EU and the South American alliance Mercosur. The French agricultural association FNSEA had announced the demonstration. Photo: Philipp von Ditfurth\/dpa (Photo by Philipp von Ditfurth\/picture alliance via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBy Remix <\/a>News Staff<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nDuring the farmers\u2019 protest in Strasbourg, ahead of the European Parliament\u2019s vote on the Mercosur trade deal, police used tear gas against demonstrators seeking an appeal to block the agreement. Officers reportedly were forced to throw stun grenades at the protesters as they tried to enter the parliament building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFarmers are trying to get into the European Parliament. The police used tear gas,\u201d wrote MEP Maciej W\u0105sik of the Law and Justice party (PiS) on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nRolnicy pr\u00f3buj\u0105 dosta\u0107 si\u0119 do Parlamentu Europejskiego. Policja u\u017cy\u0142a gazu. pic.twitter.com\/VEP1ZRiLfl<\/a>\u2014 Maciej W\u0105sik \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf1 (@WasikMaciej) January 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nRemix News reported yesterday that around 4,000 farmers from across the European Union, including Italy, Belgium, and Germany, were expected to descend on Strasbourg, with French farmers forming the majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nJUST IN: Battles between farmers and police break out in Strasbourg.
Thousands of farmers are protesting the EU’s disastrous Mercosur free trade deal.
Police fire tear gas while EU elites wine and dine at the WEF in Davos. pic.twitter.com\/JwaK0NLMGW<\/a>\u2014 Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) January 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nActual numbers were cited as high as 4,500, with the protesters are demanding that the Mercosur trade agreement signed by Ursula von der Leyen be blocked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEven if some countries support Mercosur, within those countries there are MEPs who have serious doubts, and it could come down to just a few votes, so we need to keep up the pressure,\u201d said Herv\u00e9 Lapie, secretary general of the National Federation of Farmers\u2019 Unions (FNSEA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The European Parliament is scheduled to vote on a possible appeal to the European Court of Justice, but this seems unlikely. The parliament\u2019s main political group, the EPP (which includes the Civic Coalition and the Polish People\u2019s Party), has announced that it will not support such a motion, paving the way for an easy ratification vote today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa 26-year-old French organic farmer, Ana\u00efs Foulquier, says that the EU’s new Mercosur free trade deal with South America will destroy her farm.
“We are young organic farmers. We rear our own goats, dairy cows and laying hens. We respect everything, the standards, the\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/UyJjN0cWY8<\/a>\u2014 Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) January 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nThe Mercosur agreement is intended to boost EU exports of cars, machinery, wines and spirits to Latin America, while facilitating imports into Europe of South American beef, sugar, rice, honey and soybeans. Farmers\u2019 organizations, however, warn that the deal will destabilize European agriculture by exposing it to cheaper imports that do not necessarily comply with EU production standards, citing what they describe as insufficient controls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Mercosur deal has also revealed that the EU\u2019s concerns about climate change are flimsy at best. The deal will see cheap and dangerous agricultural goods pour into Europe from halfway across the world. The EU\u2019s \u201cfarm-to-table\u201d programs also appear to have been blown up by the new deal. Of course, there is nothing about \u201ceat local\u201d when food is being shipped from the other side of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brazil alone allows the use of as many as 3,669 pesticides and has cleared away millions of acres of rainforest to create monoculture mega farms. The destruction of the rain forest will only accelerate with this new deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One Brazilian state, Mato Grosso, eatures the most \u201cagrotoxicity\u201d in the world. Soon, Europeans will be eating this food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis Brazilian state is the kingdom of the agricultural industry. Cotton, rice, sugarcane, corn, massive production of transgenic soybeans, and record pesticide use. Mato Grosso wins every global competition in the field of agrotoxicity. That\u2019s the term used by those who condemn the chemical empire. Brazil allows the use of 3,669 pesticides. It\u2019s a veritable El Dorado for corporations, primarily European ones. Products banned on the Old Continent are sold here,\u201d stated the French-German documentary \u201cPesticides: Europe\u2019s Hypocrisy.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This trade deal is diabolical for small farms and dairies, but then that’s the goal to make everything the pervue of megacorps. https:\/\/rmx.news\/article\/police-use-tear-gas-stun-grenades-against-farmers-protesting-the-mercosur-free-trade-agreement-in-front-of-the-eu-parliament-in-strasbourg\/ The European Parliament is expected to ratify the Mercosur trade agreement today By Remix News Staff During the farmers\u2019 protest in Strasbourg, ahead of the European Parliament\u2019s vote on the Mercosur trade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15386,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15385\/revisions\/15386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
By Remix <\/a>News Staff<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n During the farmers\u2019 protest in Strasbourg, ahead of the European Parliament\u2019s vote on the Mercosur trade deal, police used tear gas against demonstrators seeking an appeal to block the agreement. Officers reportedly were forced to throw stun grenades at the protesters as they tried to enter the parliament building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFarmers are trying to get into the European Parliament. The police used tear gas,\u201d wrote MEP Maciej W\u0105sik of the Law and Justice party (PiS) on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rolnicy pr\u00f3buj\u0105 dosta\u0107 si\u0119 do Parlamentu Europejskiego. Policja u\u017cy\u0142a gazu. pic.twitter.com\/VEP1ZRiLfl<\/a>\u2014 Maciej W\u0105sik \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf1 (@WasikMaciej) January 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Remix News reported yesterday that around 4,000 farmers from across the European Union, including Italy, Belgium, and Germany, were expected to descend on Strasbourg, with French farmers forming the majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n JUST IN: Battles between farmers and police break out in Strasbourg. Actual numbers were cited as high as 4,500, with the protesters are demanding that the Mercosur trade agreement signed by Ursula von der Leyen be blocked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEven if some countries support Mercosur, within those countries there are MEPs who have serious doubts, and it could come down to just a few votes, so we need to keep up the pressure,\u201d said Herv\u00e9 Lapie, secretary general of the National Federation of Farmers\u2019 Unions (FNSEA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The European Parliament is scheduled to vote on a possible appeal to the European Court of Justice, but this seems unlikely. The parliament\u2019s main political group, the EPP (which includes the Civic Coalition and the Polish People\u2019s Party), has announced that it will not support such a motion, paving the way for an easy ratification vote today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa 26-year-old French organic farmer, Ana\u00efs Foulquier, says that the EU’s new Mercosur free trade deal with South America will destroy her farm. The Mercosur agreement is intended to boost EU exports of cars, machinery, wines and spirits to Latin America, while facilitating imports into Europe of South American beef, sugar, rice, honey and soybeans. Farmers\u2019 organizations, however, warn that the deal will destabilize European agriculture by exposing it to cheaper imports that do not necessarily comply with EU production standards, citing what they describe as insufficient controls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Mercosur deal has also revealed that the EU\u2019s concerns about climate change are flimsy at best. The deal will see cheap and dangerous agricultural goods pour into Europe from halfway across the world. The EU\u2019s \u201cfarm-to-table\u201d programs also appear to have been blown up by the new deal. Of course, there is nothing about \u201ceat local\u201d when food is being shipped from the other side of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Brazil alone allows the use of as many as 3,669 pesticides and has cleared away millions of acres of rainforest to create monoculture mega farms. The destruction of the rain forest will only accelerate with this new deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One Brazilian state, Mato Grosso, eatures the most \u201cagrotoxicity\u201d in the world. Soon, Europeans will be eating this food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis Brazilian state is the kingdom of the agricultural industry. Cotton, rice, sugarcane, corn, massive production of transgenic soybeans, and record pesticide use. Mato Grosso wins every global competition in the field of agrotoxicity. That\u2019s the term used by those who condemn the chemical empire. Brazil allows the use of 3,669 pesticides. It\u2019s a veritable El Dorado for corporations, primarily European ones. Products banned on the Old Continent are sold here,\u201d stated the French-German documentary \u201cPesticides: Europe\u2019s Hypocrisy.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This trade deal is diabolical for small farms and dairies, but then that’s the goal to make everything the pervue of megacorps. https:\/\/rmx.news\/article\/police-use-tear-gas-stun-grenades-against-farmers-protesting-the-mercosur-free-trade-agreement-in-front-of-the-eu-parliament-in-strasbourg\/ The European Parliament is expected to ratify the Mercosur trade agreement today By Remix News Staff During the farmers\u2019 protest in Strasbourg, ahead of the European Parliament\u2019s vote on the Mercosur trade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15386,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15385\/revisions\/15386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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Thousands of farmers are protesting the EU’s disastrous Mercosur free trade deal.
Police fire tear gas while EU elites wine and dine at the WEF in Davos. pic.twitter.com\/JwaK0NLMGW<\/a>\u2014 Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) January 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n
“We are young organic farmers. We rear our own goats, dairy cows and laying hens. We respect everything, the standards, the\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/UyJjN0cWY8<\/a>\u2014 Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) January 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n