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PARIS (AP) — French farmers staged protests Wednesday across the country and in Brussels against low wages and what they consider to be excessive regulation, mounting costs and other problems. Roadblocks were spreading in many French regions, one day after a farmer and her daughter died due to a traffic collision at a protest barricade. Farmers have also been turning road signs upside down to protest what they argue are nonsensical agricultural policies. Arnaud Rousseau, head of France's major farmers union FNSEA, said his organization would release a list of 40 necessary measures later on Wednesday. Speaking on France 2 television, he said the protest movement was aimed at “getting quick results."

Persons: Gabriel Attal, Attal, Marc Fesneau, Arnaud Rousseau Organizations: PARIS, EU, Rural, Police Locations: Brussels, France, Pamiers, Ariège

☆ Woman Dies After Car Hits French Farmers' Roadblock - Police
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Jan. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: 1 min

PARIS (Reuters) - A woman died on Tuesday morning after a car hit a roadblock set up by farmers in southern France during nationwide protests, a police spokesman said. "A car went into a farmers' roadblock. One woman has died and two others were seriously injured. The three occupants of the car have been arrested," the police spokesman said. He said he could not immediately give more details about how the car hit the roadblock in the Ariege region.

Persons: Sudip Kar, Gupta, Jean, Stephane Brosse, Andrew Heavens Organizations: PARIS Locations: France, Ariege

☆ General in charge of Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral reconstruction dies
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( Dalal Mawad | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Paris CNN —The French army general appointed to oversee the reconstruction of Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral has died during a mountain walk. “The nation has lost one of its great soldiers,” President Emmanuel Macron wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Saturday. He described General Jean-Louis Georgelin, 74, as one of France’s “great servants” and “the architect of Notre Dame’s rebirth.”Reconstruction works of Notre-Dame cathedral as seen on July 5, 2023. Telmo Pinto/NurPhoto/Getty ImagesIn 2019, Macron appointed Georgelin to oversee the reconstruction of Notre Dame following a fire that devastated the cathedral. The cathedral is being restored to its previous design, including the wooden spire that collapsed during the blaze.

Persons: Emmanuel Macron, Jean, Louis Georgelin, “, ”, Notre, Telmo Pinto, Macron, Georgelin Organizations: Paris CNN, Notre Dame, Notre, Dame, Paris, CNN, Staff, of, Legion Locations: Notre, Ariege, Pyrenees

☆ They climbed mountains to escape Nazis. Now their great grandchildren are making the same journey
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Oliver Briscoe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Over the ridge of the mountain, across the border was the promised land, the neutral territory Spain – an escape, a second chance, a future. During World War II, a perilous route through the Pyrenees mountains provided a means for hundreds of thousands of resistance fighters, civilians, Jews, allied soldiers and escaped prisoners of war to evade Nazi pursuers. Sitting down with them, Tim reflected on how this human drama played out against the backdrop of America’s role in bringing an end to World War II. Born July 9, 1923, he made his escape over the Pyrenees in July of 1944. Although Franco was sympathetic to Germany, Spain remained neutral during World War II, largely because of its dependence on US imports.

Persons: ”, Paul Williams, Richard Christenson, Ruth, Marie Janiszewski, Oliver Briscoe Formally, Luke Janiszewski, “, ’, Kathryn, Marie, Luke, Jake, “ I’d, Tim, Christenson, Oliver Briscoe, Paul Broué, Broué, Guy Seris, ” Seris, Franco’s, Franco, Frank McNichol, Joseph McNichol, ” McNichol, ” Joseph McNichol, Joseph McNichol McNichol Organizations: CNN, SS, Freedom Trail Association, Joseph McNichol US Air Force, Floridian Locations: Spain, Nazi, France, Europe, France’s Ariege, Baltimore, England, French, Seix, Germany, Spanish, Isaba

☆ Europe drought: This once-thriving lake has all but dried up -- a story repeated across Europe
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Laura Paddison | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

While in the United States, the snow and rain that have pummeled California have helped fill reservoirs and ease unrelenting drought, winter has been far from kind to many parts of Europe. A buoy is seen on the banks of the partially dry Lake Montbel as France faces a record winter dry spell. “Lake Montbel remains at an abnormally low level,” Franck Solacroup, the regional director of the Adour-Garonne Water Agency, which covers the area that includes Lake Montbel, told CNN. Farmers like Rouquet, who rely on the lake, are having to make tough decisions on what to grow. “This is the most extreme winter in terms of low snow cover,” she told CNN.

☆ Farming and tourism under threat as winter drought dries up France's Lake Montbel
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Manuel Ausloos | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

PARIS, March 17 (Reuters) - Set at foot of the Pyrenees mountains, Lake Montbel is famous in south-west France for its turquoise waters, massive size and thriving aquatic life. For the month of February, the Ariege region, where Lake Montbel is located, has suffered from a rainfall shortage of 80%. Lake Montbel is an artificial lake, which extends over 570 hectares and was created in 1985 by flooding what used to be a forested area. "Lake Montbel, in fact, is the guarantee of income ... Mascarenc uses water from the nearby Ariege river and not from Montbel Lake.

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