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		<title>French Farmers Intensify Protests Against Mercosur Trade Deal: Blockades Spread Across the Country</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[French Farmers Step Up the Pressure Farmers across France have ramped up their protests against]]></description>
		
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					<description><![CDATA[France in Turmoil Over EU-Mercosur Deal Tensions have flared across France after the European Union]]></description>
		
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		<title>French Farmers Step Up Protests as Livestock Disease Crisis Deepens</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[French Farmers Step Up Protests as Livestock Disease Crisis Deepens Farmers in Isère and Ariège have ramped]]></description>
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni Challenges the EU Status Quo What began as a routine]]></description>
		
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		<title>France’s Persistent Red Lines on Mercosur</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[France maintains strong opposition to the EU-Mercosur deal, insisting on strict safeguard clauses and equal]]></description>
		
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