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The agricultural question remains profoundly European.
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In the entourage of the President of the Republic, we readily recognize him. Two years after his campaign promise of a new agricultural orientation, Emmanuel Macron wants to put an end to the anger that has been brewing for four months in our countryside and on our highways. But the Franco-French room for maneuver to transform French agriculture remains, in fact, limited. Since 1962 and the establishment of the common agricultural policy (CAP), which has become the main line of community spending, many decisions having a direct impact on farms in France have been taken at the European level.
From subsidies, on which many farmers depend (France is the main beneficiary of the CAP, with 9.3 billion euros received per year), to authorizations for phytosanitary products, including fallow obligations, free trade agreements, exchange or imports of Ukrainian poultry and cereals
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