Emmanuel Macron calls for a “European Egalim” and a “European health and agricultural control force”

“There is a European fight to wage.” At the end of a European summit in Brussels, Emmanuel Macron called on Thursday February 1 for a series of European measures in favor of farmers, including A “Egalim European” to avoid circumvention of French law via European purchasing centers. These structures are in the sights of French farmers, who see them as an additional means for distributors to exert pressure on prices.

The French president also said having asked the European Commission to create a “European health and agricultural control force”. It would also make it possible to check the application of “mirror clauses”, to ensure that imported products meet the same standards as what is required of European farmers. “When we have a European rule which is transposed in the same way everywhere among our farmers, it must be controlled in the same way in all countries”pleaded Emmanuel Macron.

He also asked the European Commission to achieve “concrete and tangible simplifications from the end of February” in favor of farmers. The French president also congratulated himself on having ensured that the controversial trade agreement between the EU and the Mercosur countries was not “was concluded in haste as some threatened to do”.