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Organizations representing French farmers have threatened to blockade Paris for an unlimited period from early on Monday afternoon in support of demands for better working and living conditions. The young farmers’ union and the FNSEA umbrella organization representing local agricultural unions said their blockade would start at 2 pm (1300 GMT), with all the main routes into the French capital blocked. The two unions represent the majority of French farmers. Farmers from the Lot-et-Garonne department in south-western France plan to blockade Rungis, the huge wholesale food market some 13 kilomet…

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