• French farmers wrongly accuse Brussels of betrayal. Macron’s complicity could help the far right to victory

    Marine Le Pen is milking rural fury over the Mercosur pact. France’s politicians, of all stripes, are too cowardly to defend a good dealOnce again, France’s farmers have been blocking motorways with their tractors in protest, this time at an impending EU trade agreement with a group of South American countries in a common market known as Mercosur, which has been 25 years in the making.The tragedy is that while the EU can finally claim an important victory in its strategy of sealing r

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