In an interview with the “Journal du Dimanche”, Éric Ciotti pleaded for a minimum income of 1,500 euros net monthly for farmers. The president of the Republicans estimated that the government’s responses are “ridiculously weak”.
The president of the Republicans (LR) Éric Ciotti pleads for a minimum income of 1,500 euros net monthly for farmers and estimates on Sunday, in an interview with JDD, that the government’s responses to their anger are “ridiculously weak”. “We must put in place a financial support system for farmers who live below the poverty line. No farmer should earn less than 1,500 euros net per month,” says Éric Ciotti. “The farmers’ fight is that of a France of common sense and work which must not disappear,” he adds.
End free trade agreements
The leader of the right believes that such a measure could be financed “by strongly sanctioning distributors who do not respect the law which guarantees a minimum price for agricultural production” and by removing “certain aid spent at a loss, in particular for the policy of the city”.
He also calls for an end to free trade agreements and a ban on the importation of products from countries that do not respect the same social and environmental rules as France.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced several measures on Friday such as the cancellation of an increase in non-road diesel (GNR), administrative simplification and the assurance that France would not approve as it stands the trade agreement between the EU and the Latin American countries of Mercosur. Farmers have lifted some blockades on highways, but promise new actions from Monday.