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Skriven 2008-04-28 07:39:11 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 14663 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
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28 Apr 08 08:28, Ward Dossche wrote to Joe Delahaye:

 WD> Joe,

 JD>> I seem to recall something within the last two years.  Labour unrest
 JD>> and again French farmers doing their thing as well.

 WD> There were farmer manifestations in ... 2002 ... that's 6 years ago.

 WD> After that nothing major.

So, burning cars in the streets of Paris is nothing major. Even though it
happens all the time and it goes un-noticed by you.

 WD> There's continuous unrest over a number of things but that doesn't
 WD> mean like happened in Watts.

What happened in Watts? I hadn't noticed.

 WD> Something like that never occured in Paris after 1968, and even then
 WD> it was modest.

Just last year...

 WD> Usually sometimes after the harvest of tomatoes, with too many
 WD> tomatoes on the market and the price dropping below production costs,
 WD> farmers will drive a few trucks into town and drop 'm in a market
 WD> place to be squashed by a bulldozer in a protest. This never happens
 WD> in Paris though.

 WD> Usually a lot of press is around, videocameras are whirring and when
 WD> it's over municipal workers scoop-up the lot and the fire-department
 WD> hoses down the street. By noon everything is back to normal.

 WD> But video images go around the world and because of lack of news you
 WD> get a story.

 WD> What do the farmers want? EU subsidies to cover their losses which
 WD> they credit to the internal agricultural policy. What does the EU
 WD> answer: grow something else.

 WD> 20-30 years ago because of the unification there were upsets in
 WD> trades because of goods which were manufactured elsewhere cheaper but
 WD> still within the confines of the EU. The EU then invented a system of
 WD> subsidies to either equalise the prices or to pay farmers for not
 WD> growing a certain crop.

 WD> It happened with tomato growers in Spain and tobacco growers in
 WD> Greece. These people got money for not producing. And every year they
 WD> try again ...

 WD> Is that unrest?

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