Could farmers' protests resume?
“The wait is very high, the anger is still palpable,” Arnaud Rousseau, president of the FNSEA agricultural union, warned on France Bleu Lorraine this Friday.
The implementation of the reforms promised at the beginning of February, “it’s not going fast enough,” he assures.
“We consider, as I speak to you, that the pace is not the right one,” says the trade unionist, “we still have many subjects on which there are uncertainties, on which we are not yet there. YOU ".
He cites, for example, the recognition of agriculture as of major general interest for the nation: “this must be crystallized in law, and it will not be for two months.
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In several regions, farmers are already preparing new actions.
This week, Rural Coordination blocked access to the TotalEnergies site in Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), demanding a reduction in the price of non-road diesel.
“Farmers continue to be mobilized.
They tell themselves that they didn't do all that not to obtain results,” underlines Arnaud Rousseau.
“Some points of progress”
The trade unionist concedes, however, that there have been “some areas of progress” in recent weeks.
For example, “a certain number of decrees which shorten the processing times for files, on water, on authorizations for classified installations,” he declares.
But “there are too many things that haven’t happened.
And I once again invite the government to give them to us quickly.
In any case, within a fortnight.”
The “guidance bill for agricultural sovereignty and generational renewal in agriculture” will be presented to the Council of Ministers on March 29, the Ministry of Agriculture said on Thursday.
MPs will then take up the bill from May 13.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal received all the agricultural unions Monday evening.
A meeting between the organizations and Emmanuel Macron is also planned but the date has not yet been set.