It is clear that the anger has not ebbed.
But, for him, “things are moving forward”.
The Minister of Agriculture, Marc Fesneau, was a guest on France Info this Saturday morning, the day after a very eventful day at the Agricultural Show.
“We must not boil down an active minority to the reality of what I have perceived at the show over the past eight days,” he reacted straight away.
This Friday, during one of his daily trips to the Salon, the minister was the target of whistles and even egg throwing.
“Fesneau resignations” were also heard.
“I think it harms the image of farmers,” commented the minister about this action partly carried out by members of the departmental federation of the FNSEA of Seine-et-Marne.
A certain number of people “are using this anger (
of farmers
) to carry messages against Europe, and messages about the environment that I do not find appropriate,” continued the minister. at the microphone of France info.
“It’s easier, when you are in the position of an opponent, to comment.
When you govern, you take more risk because you decide”
“Concrete”
For him, “things are progressing: there are decrees that will be issued on the naming of meats, work that has been carried out on emergency aid, (…) which is starting to be paid.
All that is concrete,” he said.
“We need to change the regulations so there are processes.
We can sit on the Council of State, on the legislator, on the rules of law and democracy, but that is not the choice we make,” justified Marc Fesneau.
So, “obviously, it can be long” admitted the minister.
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Concerning the establishment of floor prices promised by Emmanuel Macron, “it is not the same proposal as France Insoumise” assured Marc Fesneau, who had recently rejected the opposition version.
“It is not the State which will set the prices”, contrary to what LFI advocated, but they will be constructed “from a production indicator”, he assured.
“It’s not Soviet,” he brushed off.
Questioned on the subject of a version of the Egalim law on a European scale, the Minister of Agriculture recognized that France needed to carry out “convincing work”, which will take “months” rather than “days”. or weeks.”