Anger is spreading across the country, and so is the name of Pascal Canfin.
As the farmers' gatherings gain momentum, MEP Renaissance sees himself agitated like a scarecrow.
Just like his “green pact” or “Green Deal”, this enormous package of environmental legislation, of which he was the architect at the head of the powerful environment committee of the European Parliament.
To the great dismay of the Macron-Attal couple, who are trying to stem a crisis with an uncertain outcome, the defector from the Greens has become at 49 a symbol of the “Europe of standards” castigated by agricultural unions, the right and the nationalist camp.
It is the president (Les Républicains) of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, who criticizes his
“positions”
in the European Parliament on Tuesday on Franceinfo.
The elected National Rally (and Reconquest!), who speak out against the champion of a “punitive ecology”.
Even the Minister of Agriculture, Marc Fesneau, stressed on Sunday the “
need to question the “Green Deal” in its foundations
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