He is one of the symbols of the peasant revolt.
Already weakened by soaring energy prices and the opening of the internal market to Ukrainian products, farmers do not have harsh enough words to describe the “Green Deal”.
“It’s a totally disconnected project,”
criticizes Thierry Coué, deputy secretary general at the FNSEA office and pig breeder in Brittany.
Farmers are not opposed to ecology, but we are looking at the problem in reverse, sacrificing economic and social issues.”
Launched by Ursula von der Leyen in 2019, the European “Green Deal” commits European Union (EU) states to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 – with an intermediate target of reducing greenhouse gases by 55 % in 2030 compared to their 1990 level.
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Since 2021, more than fifty pieces of legislation have already been adopted at EU level.
If the “Green Deal” concerns all sectors of activity, it is its agricultural version, called…
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