France: Le Pen courts farmers at agriculture summit in Clermont-Ferrand

The leader of the National Front (FN) Marine Le Pen attended the Clermont-Cournon International Livestock Summit near Clermont-Ferrand, on Friday. Unlike the Minister of Agriculture Stephane Le Foll, who was heckled by attendees at the summit on Thursday, Le Pen received good reception, with attendees shaking her hand and posing for selfies with the FN leader.
Le Pen took the opportunity to defend France’s farmers, stating "we won't eradicate the model of the family farm in France, which works very well, in order to replace it with the model of ‘farm-factory.’ I think this is doomed to fail. Just look at how the situation for our farmers is, for example, the dairy farmers - there are 10.000 farms which are in an extremely difficult situation and probably 5.000 already bankrupt. What are we playing at? Do you really want to maintain this?"
The FN leader turned her attention to President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, warning that he is planning “to fine 250,000 euros per migrant that each country refuses to re-locate migrants.” Le Pen continued, noting that she perceives this as a sign of a “Europe that sanctions, Europe that abuses, Europe that imposes. It's not the Europe that we want. And this Europe is massively being rejected by people."
The Clermont-Cournon International Livestock Summit is the third largest agricultural exhibition in Europe.