Floor prices, a brake on “European competitiveness”, according to the boss of Intermarché. “We all have a share of responsibility” in this agricultural crisis, believes Thierry Cotillard, of the Les Mousquetaires group.

The words of Marc Fesneau “not up to the level” of the Minister of Agriculture, he adds. ‘Large distribution is French companies. So either they are French, or they are stateless multinationals’