Discussions continue.
Gabriel Attal will receive the majority agricultural unions on Tuesday morning, after the postponement of a meeting planned for last week with Emmanuel Macron, who will only meet them at the end of the work undertaken between the two parties.
The Prime Minister will therefore welcome the FNSEA and the Young Farmers to Matignon on Tuesday at 9:30 a.m.
The president of the FNSEA Arnaud Rousseau announced on Saturday evening the postponement of the meeting planned at the Élysée, explaining that "the conditions for emerging from the agricultural crisis (were) not met" but refused to "put the burden on the unions this responsibility.
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It targeted comments reported by the press according to which the public authorities had castigated “unions incapable of agreeing on 4 or 5 strong measures”.
According to a government source, the unions must “agree on a road map, 4-5 major objectives or demands”: “As long as this is not the case, a meeting (with Emmanuel Macron) would not have no Sens ".
Differences over “rhythm”
The head of state will receive the unions “when all the work carried out by the government allows the president to conclude the sequence”, according to the Élysée.
“We continue to move forward on the Prime Minister's 62 commitments” Gabriel Attal, Minister Delegate for Agriculture Agnès Pannier-Runacher said on TF1.
“The government acted strongly and quickly,” she said, while the FNSEA considers that the government is not moving “at the right pace” to respond to its demands.
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The FNSEA had formulated 120 demands after the peasant protest movement at the end of January and beginning of February.
Arnaud Rousseau nevertheless welcomed the “advances” obtained in Brussels on fallow land in particular.
The French government is committed to several projects.
The protest movement has subsided since the beginning of February but actions are still carried out sporadically.
At the heart of the discussions is also the agricultural orientation bill which will be presented to the Council of Ministers on March 29.
The Ministry of Agriculture also launched this Friday a cycle of meetings on the overtransposition of pesticide standards, of which French farmers consider themselves victims.
The final version of a new strategy for reducing the use of pesticides, Ecophyto, should be presented at the beginning of April.