farmers’ unions maintain pressure after their meeting with Gabriel Attal

The Prime Minister received the FNSEA and Young Farmers for two hours with the Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau.

“Neither distrust nor complacency.” Ten days after the lifting of the blockages, Gabriel Attal met, Tuesday February 13, in Matignon the representatives of the FNSEA and the Young Farmers (JA), who are maintaining pressure on the executive less than two weeks before the Salon de agriculture. “It went well. We continue to move forward, we reviewed all the files. On simplification, it’s encouraging. Now, everything must be in place at the time of the show”declared Arnaud Rousseau, the president of the powerful FNSEA, upon leaving Matignon.

The Prime Minister received these unions for two hours with the Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau. “It would be dishonest of us to say that nothing is moving”, noted the president of the JA, Arnaud Gaillot. But “it still deserves to maintain pressure because it is still difficult to translate”, he added, regretting in particular an insufficient number of meetings with Bercy.

The two officials were pleased that Gabriel Attal had accepted the principle of a monthly monitoring point on simplification measures. But “let no one think that because the tractors have returned, things are settled”, insisted Arnaud Rousseau. Emmanuel Macron will receive the Rural Coordination and the Peasant Confederation on Wednesday, before the FNSEA and the JA next week, Tuesday according to Arnaud Rousseau. As before each Agricultural Show, which opens on February 24 in Paris, said the Elysée.