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“Farmers are the whistleblowers of Europe's self-imposed decline”

2024-02-04T18:50:54.648Z

Highlights: “Farmers are the whistleblowers of Europe's self-imposed decline”. The anger of farmers has highlighted the impasses of the ecological transition model promoted by the European Commission. The Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, announced some measures aimed at compensating farmers in difficulty more quickly and reforming grotesque rules on hedges or cleaning canals. But it is not by throwing them a few notes that we will calm the peasants' revolt. French farmers (like their Dutch and German colleagues) are in fact the whistleblower of a decline that Mrs von der Leyen's Europe is imposing on them, without real justification.


TRIBUNE - The anger of farmers has highlighted the impasses of the ecological transition model promoted by the European Commission, analyze the economist Christian Saint-Étienne and the investment banker Philippe Villin.


*Christian Saint-Étienne holds the chair of economics at the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (Cnam).

Latest work published

: “ Strategic

Liberalism

against the chaos of the world

” (Odile Jacob, 2020).

**Former general director of “

Figaro

”, Philippe Villin is a financial advisor and business manager.

The Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, announced some measures aimed at compensating farmers in difficulty more quickly and reforming grotesque rules on hedges or cleaning canals.

But it is not by throwing them a few notes that we will calm the peasants' revolt.

Because French farmers (like their Dutch and German colleagues) are in fact the whistleblowers of a decline that Mrs von der Leyen's Europe - supported by European elites - is imposing on them, without real justification. , while subjecting them to increased international competition which endangers the sale of their products.

Indeed, the Commission has never…

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Source: lefigaro

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