Is this the end of Coca-Cola bottles on the tables at Argelès-Gazost town hall?
As U.S. President Donald Trump was expected to announce the implementation of new tariffs for European countries, the small French town of 2,800 inhabitants in the southern Hautes-Pyrénées region decided to ban the famous beverage from events organized by the town council, in favor of local drinks, radio station France Bleu reported on April 9.
“This decision was made as a symbolic nod to Trump’s aggressive and rather brutal trade policy, but most of all it was made to promote our local products,” Gaëlle Vallin, the town’s mayor, told French TV channel TF1.
“A way to show our solidarity”
The town council’s idea originated from a ceremony held in Argelès-Gazost on March 19 with veterans from the Algerian War to commemorate the day the ceasefire and the signing of the Évian Accords came into effect, France Bleu reports. according to reporting media, it was then that the council suggested banning the sparkling drink to favor local products in the…
