The inauguration of the 60th Agricultural Show, this Saturday morning, promises to be very tense.
Hall 1 of the Porte de Versailles exhibition center has been the obligatory stop for Presidents of the Republic for decades.
But this year, Emmanuel Macron will be deprived of wandering within “the largest farm in France”.
A month after the explosion of a movement of agricultural anger that no one had seen coming, the threats of excesses had initially convinced him to favor an
“open and unfiltered”
debate with hundreds of players in the sector: farmers, of course, but also distributors, agri-food manufacturers and NGOs.
The ace.
The president decided late Friday afternoon to cancel this debate, following the controversy caused by the announcement of the Élysée's plan to invite... the Uprisings of the Earth, a collective of sworn enemies of farmers.
It will therefore take another opportunity to finish emptying the abscess, which burst in mid-January.
“The movement of…
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