Gabriel Attal will receive the FNSEA and the Young Farmers on Tuesday afternoon while the majority union is considering a resumption of actions if the Prime Minister’s recent announcements are not followed by concrete effects by the Agricultural Show.
Gabriel Attal will receive the FNSEA and the Young Farmers on Tuesday afternoon while the majority union is considering a resumption of actions if the Prime Minister’s recent announcements are not followed by concrete effects by the Agricultural Show. The meeting will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the presence of Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau and his delegate minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Matignon said on Monday.
“We need to speed up the pace”
“We are not at the right tempo (…), we must accelerate the tempo,” warned the president of the FNSEA, Arnaud Rousseau, on Sunday, urging the government to take action before the holding of the Agricultural Show in Paris (February 24-March 3) where a number of politicians are expected, including the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron. After two weeks of road blockages and sometimes tumultuous actions, the demonstrators broke camp at the beginning of February after three bursts of announcements from Gabriel Attal on subjects as diverse as pesticides, farmers’ pensions or synthetic meat.
But since then there has been “no ministerial meeting” either with the Minister of Agriculture or with the Prime Minister, and “no follow-up point”, lamented Arnaud Rousseau. He wants “concrete decisions that can be seen on the farms”, he said again on Monday on France Info, even if “we understand that, regarding the law, we need a little delay”. The president of the FNSEA does not intend to make the Agricultural Show “a moment of tension and ultimately violence”. It “is a moment of welcoming the public in which we explain our profession”.