City dwellers saw with some relief, at the end of last week, the large wheels of agricultural machinery turn around and return in slow processions to their fields of origin.
Gabriel Attal must have done it several times in this affair - an ineffective, if not counterproductive, field visit and a general policy speech proclaiming the
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French agricultural exception
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which had no effect required a salvo additional measures - but it is clear, in the end, that the blockages have been lifted, a remission that is undoubtedly ephemeral but necessary for our frail societies, so fragile in the face of adversity... Has the agricultural “crisis” been resolved?
Obviously not.
Across Europe, tractors are grouping together, as in Italy or Spain, to voice the same grievances - incomes too low, fuel too expensive, normative and ecological frenzy in Brussels...
Let's recap: the Covid crisis was followed by the energy crisis -…
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