The agricultural crisis followed the ‘yellow vest’ crisis; those of housing and the environment are still ahead of us. A succession of crises which reveals a permanent inflammatory state - a crisis of the social body.

City dwellers saw with some relief, at the end of last week, the large wheels of agricultural machinery turn around and return in slow processions to their fields of origin. Across Europe, tractors are grouping together, as in Italy or Spain, to voice the same grievances - incomes too low, fuel too expensive, normative and ecological frenzy in Brussels.