Agricultural bill, “Choose France” summit, violence in New Caledonia… Marine Tondelier’s “8h30 franceinfo”

Marine Tondelier was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Tuesday May 14, 2024

Marine Tondelier was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Tuesday May 14, 2024. Agricultural bill, “Choose France” summit, violence in New Caledonia… She answers questions from Salhia Brakhlia and Jérôme Chapuis.

Agricultural crisis: a bill “insulting for farmers”, says Marine Tondelier

The agricultural bill “does not guide anything and does not outline a very favorable future” for farmers, says Marine Tondelier, national secretary of Europe Ecology the Greens. MPs begin examining the government’s text in the hemicycle on Tuesday to respond to the anger expressed by farmers during the winter.

An orientation bill on agriculture “directs nothing”, it’s “empty”according to the boss of the Greens, who assures that her party “will vote against”. “We even filed a motion for prior dismissal,” she specifies. Reworked after the agricultural crisis, the bill lifts certain environmental constraints and brings together very diverse subjects with the objective of accelerating the arrival of new generations of farmers. This text is “extremely insufficient”justifies Marine Tondelier. “When we have 100,000 farms that have disappeared in ten years, what is proposed in this law is a drop in the ocean,” she castigates. The ecologist criticizes a text which “will encourage the installation of megabasins, encourage the installation of factory farms which are harmful to our health, to animal dignity and then to the economy.”

Choose France, a record 15 billion euros in foreign investments announced

At the Choose France summit, more than 15 billion euros in foreign investments – a record – were announced. In total, the Élysée unveiled a “record” number of 56 projects potentially creating 10,000 jobs, after the 28 announcements and 13 billion for the 2023 edition.
Amazon will invest 1.2 billion euros in the country, recruiting “all profiles”.

“How many jobs are disappearing in city center businesses? How many hectares of territory, of fertile agricultural land which will be artificialized to build logistics warehouses or data centers? asks Marine Tondelier. “It always scares me a little.” admits the national secretary of EELV.

🔴 15 billion investments via Choose France ➡️ “Whether you are a farmer, an entrepreneur… If you are fat and rich, Emmanuel Macron will help you”, judge Marine Tondelier. pic.twitter.com/rzMsfT3iqU

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Violence in New Caledonia: the result of a “humiliation” inflicted on the Kanaks by France, a “colonial state”, according to Marine Tondelier

Marine Tondelier denounces Tuesday the manner “humiliating and degrading”, how France behaves with its overseas territories, while New Caledonia is prey to an outbreak of violence.

Before the vote of deputies on a constitutional revision decried by the separatists, the French archipelago in the South Pacific has been the scene for 24 hours of altercations, looting of stores, burning of houses and shooting at the forces of the order. “The way in which France behaves with its former colonies is humiliating and degrading so yes, it provokes somewhat knee-jerk reactions,”believes Marine Tondelier, recalling that the constitutional revision would have “an impact on the future result of the elections, since the direction of this reform is that the Kanaks have less electoral weight”.

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