Timothée Gaget is a specialist in questions of industrial and agricultural sovereignty. The Agricultural Show is the only place where local elected officials with peasant origins leave with an advantage over the Parisian elites.

The destiny of French agriculture is largely played out in Brussels, he says. The French, struggling to name more than three MEPs, should also be interested in the European elections in June... since the proposal on the future CAP 2028-2034 will be known in the fall of 2025.