The Prime Minister started his day at the Agricultural Show with an interview given to RTL this Tuesday morning.
The opportunity to address many current topics, starting with the remarks made the day before by Emmanuel Macron on the subject of the war in Ukraine, which has just entered its third year.
“We cannot exclude anything in a war” which is taking place “in the heart of Europe”
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal repeated on RTL that “we cannot exclude anything in a war” which is taking place “in the heart of Europe” including the sending of ground troops, as Emmanuel Macron said. mentioned the day before.
“There is no consensus today to send ground troops in an official, assumed and endorsed manner.
But in dynamics, nothing should be excluded.
We will do everything necessary to ensure that Russia cannot win this war,” explained the French president on Monday, following an international conference in support of Ukraine in Paris, marking a very clear development. of his position on the subject.
At the start of the conflict, two years ago, “many countries said:
we ruled out sending weapons, even if only to defend themselves
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Today, we are sending long-range missiles,” continued the Prime Minister.
“What (the head of state) reminded us is that in the future, we exclude nothing,” he insisted.
A tackle against “the sowers of chaos” on Saturday
Asked to react to the eventful inauguration of the Agricultural Show on Saturday by Emmanuel Macron, Gabriel Attal estimated that “some are using this anger to sow a form of chaos, like the RN probably using certain union forces”.
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“Our farmers, our breeders, our fishermen, get up very early every morning to feed the French and I do not mix them with the sowers of chaos who wanted to disrupt the president’s visit,” insisted the Prime Minister on RTL, live from the Show.
Le Pen and Bardella, “the stowaways” of the agricultural crisis
The Prime Minister continued his attacks by accusing the leaders of the National Rally of being the “free riders” of the agricultural crisis, pointing out their “absolute inconsistency”.
Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella “come to ponder this crisis, to explain that they have all the solutions”, estimated the head of government.
But “in 40 years” of European Parliament, the RN has “absolutely done nothing, proposed nothing, because there is an absolute inconsistency of the National Rally which votes for the PAC once, against the PAC the next time” , he added.
New round envisaged for unemployment insurance
The Prime Minister also said he was in favor of “reopening the construction site” of unemployment insurance.
“The social partners are in negotiations until the end of March.
So we will take stock in the coming weeks.
I am in favor of being able to move forward on this issue,” he declared.
Gabriel Attal pleads for “a social model which encourages more activity”.
What version for “floor prices”?
The Prime Minister also returned to the proposal to establish “floor prices”, mentioned by Emmanuel Macron on Saturday, during the inauguration of the Agricultural Show, to respond to the agricultural crisis.
Gabriel Attal specified on RTL that the government was going to “ensure that production cost indicators, which exist in the Egalim law, which allow, sector by sector, to look at the cost of production in each sector, can be the basis for constructing the price.
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A very different version of the floor price, according to Gabriel Attal, from that of France Insoumise “which wants to transform our farmers into civil servants and nationalize mass distribution”.
“Between the USSR and the Far West there is a balance,” he said.