Government makes concessions in bid to placate protesting farmers

Farmers sit on a highway after spending the night at a barricade in Aix-en-Provence, southern France (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

With protesting farmers camped out at barricades around Paris, France’s government hoped to calm their anger with more concessions on Tuesday to their complaints that growing and rearing food has become too difficult and not sufficiently lucrative.

Attention was focusing on an address that new prime minister Gabriel Attal was to give in the afternoon to France’s lower house of parliament, laying out his government’s priorities.