Is the anger contained?
President Emmanuel Macron
“has taken the measure”
of the crisis, estimated the Rural Coordination, 2nd agricultural union, claiming to have been
“listened to”
in particular on his requests for emergency cash flow and on administrative simplification, Wednesday at the end of an interview at the Élysée.
The Head of State
“took the measure of the situation, he listened carefully”
and heard
“our subliminal message: “Leave us alone and let us work”
,” Serge Bousquet-Cassagne told the press. , president of the Lot-et-Garonne chamber of agriculture and union figure.
At her side, Karine Duc, co-president of Rural Coordination (CR) in Lot-et-Garonne, identified
“four strong points”
in the requests presented to the Head of State:
“emergency cash flow measures »
;
“
simplification at all levels”
and the lifting of production constraints, particularly environmental ones;
the requirement for
“mirror clauses”
– on the reciprocity of standards for imported products – and finally a big effort
“on the transfers”
of farms.
“Ecology is what we do in our fields, we have already made a lot of efforts.
Let us produce
,” she added.
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Referring to the pileup of standards and red tape, Serge Bousquet-Cassagne felt he had been
“well understood”
by the president:
“It’s his administration that is messing around, overplaying the laws.
It's up to him to do the job.
Sometimes, he adopts laws which are not or only barely applied on the ground
,” he said, giving the example of the development of agrivoltaism which would be
“slowed down”
by the administration in the region.
“After the measures announced by the government, we asked for a clear timetable
,” indicated Karine Duc.
Ten days before the Agricultural Show, the second agricultural union intends to
“maintain the pressure”
by continuing its actions, ranging from the distribution of leaflets to punching actions against trucks of foreign products or dumping hay in front of businesses or administrations.
“We must use these methods, the only ones to be heard,”
explained Karine Duc, at the end of this interview to which the president of the union Véronique Le Floc'h and the Minister of Agriculture Marc were also invited. Fesneau and his delegate minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher.