How can we respond to the anger of farmers without giving up making the ecological transition the “great cause” of the five-year term?
How can we defend national producers while leading a resolutely European campaign?
This is the equation with two unknowns of the Macronists.
And this is, this very Tuesday, Gabriel Attal's headache for his general policy speech.
From the podium of the Assembly, the Prime Minister will insist that ecology is not the enemy of agriculture.
It will be necessary to demonstrate this concretely as farmers have felt hampered and taken by the throat by an accumulation of standards adopted in the name of defending the environment and the fight against global warming.
This is why the head of government has associated since the start of the crisis with ministers Marc Fesneau (Agriculture) and Christophe Béchu (Ecological Transition), two elected officials from agricultural territories in the Center-West.
Also read: Robert Redeker: “The farmers’ revolt is the true uprising of the people of the earth”
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