Abstract
Farmers are among the most vigorous protestors against the European Union. However, contrary to some other groups, the farmers fail to cooperate. Transnational movements are quite rare, and quasi inexistent. It is for this reason that it is interesting to focus on this group in order to understand the limit of the transnational's in social movements and the factors which prevent cooperation between national movements across domestic boundaries. Two axes will be analyzed: firstly the material incapacity for the farmers to cooperate and secondly the lack of common interests which is the base for each transnational movement. Traditionally, political action in the industrial countries presupposed a specific concept of space and territory. The state used its power for the legitimate use of force in a limited area, to fix its borders. That is why, in a first time, former social movements took for granted the assumption that the national state defined the relevant political space for political contenders.
