The FNSEA, the leading French agricultural union, will communicate this Wednesday, January 24, in the evening, around forty “clear demands”. Guest of RTL, Pascal Canfin is the architect of the “green deal”, this green pact which since 2020 has brought together a whole series of environmental legislation. Concretely, this is what the farmers are protesting against.
MEP from the Renaissance Group and Chairman of the Parliament’s Environmental Committee “understands” the anger of the farmerss, but points to “different things” in this anger.
“We must not caricature it. We must not exploit it as some are doing six months before the European elections,” adds Pascal Canfin, who is targeting the National Rally.
Jordan Bardella who bought new boots and goes to the farm and says it’s scandalous
Pascal Canfin, MEP in the Renaissance group and chairman of the Parliament’s environmental committee
“We see Jordan Bardella who bought new boots and goes to the farm and says it’s scandalous. But I remind you that the only standards that came into force today, as we speak in the framework of the green pact, it is the reform of the common agricultural policy, the greening of the CAP. It turns out that the Republicans and the National Rally voted for these standards in Brussels. Today, in a totally hypocritical way, they denounce them“.
As for the farmers’ anger, it is “multiple”, according to him. “It is, for example, linked to the systematic or almost systematic late payment of aid. It has nothing to do with Europe, but I can tell you that it is particularly annoying. No one would like to see their salary paid with three months late. This is what happens to farmers for CAP aid“.
“Mirror clauses”
Pascal Canfin indicated “to fight in the European Parliament to obtain what we call mirror clauses”. He thus takes the case of a product manufactured with “a pesticide banned in Europe”. The latter “which is manufactured outside Europe with this same pesticide, for example in Brazil or Thailand, must not be able to enter Europe,” he explains. “We are gradually, sector by sector, culture by culture, winning them over,” he added.
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