French farmers protests US duties on Roquefort
French farmers called Wednesday on President Barack Obama to stop holding Roquefort cheese "hostage" in a trans-Atlantic trade fight. Militant farmer Jose Bove — known for attacking McDonalds — and others protested outside the U.S. Embassy in Paris, hoping to reverse a decision by the former Bush administration to slap new sanctions on some European foods. Those sanctions include a tripling of import duties for the pungent Roquefort. "We are hostages in trade talks between Europe and the United States," said Jean Calmels, deputy mayor of the village of Saint Rome de Dolan and a milk producer for Roquefort, who spoke at the protest
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