Emmanuel Macron admitted Tuesday, January 4
“not having succeeded”
on glyphosate, admitting to having made “the error” at the start of the five-year term of having believed France capable of getting out of this weedkiller alone without the other European countries.
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"On glyphosate, I did not succeed," said the President of the Republic in an interview with the
Parisian
.
"Some farmers told me that if we forced them to leave quickly, they would go out of business, because their Spanish or Italian competitors could continue to produce,"
he explained.
"This is the mistake I made at the start of the five-year term: we must act on these subjects at European level"
, he said, while France has just assumed the presidency of the EU to the next six months.
“It doesn't work if you do it alone.
I cannot put farmers in dead ends and without a solution, ”
he said, adding that“ we are at the time of practical solutions ”.
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