If the executive increases the number of meetings with the unions to calm things down ten days before the opening of the Agricultural Show, the farmers still remain unsatisfied with the implementation of Gabriel Attal's announcements.
On Tuesday, one of their major demands still found a favorable response in Brussels.
Under the pressure of protest movements throughout Europe, the European Commission finally gave in: the obligation to put 4% of cultivated areas fallow is frozen for a year.
Farmers will be able to temporarily grow intermediate or nitrogen-fixing crops on these lands (lentils, peas, etc.) without using phytosanitary products.
A way to limit
“loss of income”
, while preserving a minimum of practices favorable to the environment, explained the Commission.
“The commitments made to French farmers have been kept and France will implement this exemption, in accordance with the government’s announcements”
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