Emmanuel Macron will participate in a major debate with “all the players in the agricultural world”, farmers, manufacturers, mass retailers and NGOs, on Saturday at the Salon de l’Agriculture, “to outline the future” of the sector, announced Thursday the Elysée. “All stakeholders will be able to give their point of view, make proposals, compare ideas”, indicated the presidency while the farmers, angry for several weeks, remain more mobilized than ever as this major meeting approaches. -you annual.
The debate will last at least two hours
The debate, which will last at least two hours, is intended to be “open, frank and transparent”, “without filter”, “in a republican state of mind”. The President of the Republic “really wants speech to be free”, underlined the Elysée. The exercise, which is reminiscent of the major debates organized in the midst of the “yellow vest” crisis in 2019, will take place on a “ring”, a traditional place for presenting animals, at the show.
Several hundred people are expected, including representatives of the main agricultural unions (FNSEA, Young Farmers, Rural Coordination, Peasant Confederation, etc.), large retailers (Lidl, Leclerc, etc.) and manufacturers such as the food processor Bigard meat.
Several leaders of environmental associations are also invited, added the Elysée, citing Réseau Action Climat, Générations futures and even the Uprisings of the Earth, a collective that the executive wanted to dissolve before the decision was canceled by the Council of State. “The president (Emmanuel Macron) will have the opportunity to re-set a course for French agriculture by 2030 at the conclusion of this debate,” said a presidential advisor.