The EELV MEP answered questions from Jérôme Chapuis and Salhia Brakhlia, Monday September 25, 2023.
Yannick Jadot, MEP Europe Écologie-Les Verts, elected senator from Paris, was the guest on 8:30 a.m. franceinfo, Monday September 25, 2023. Fuel allowance, glyphosate, immigration… He answers questions from Jérôme Chapuis and Salhia Brakhlia.
Fuel: the compensation of 100 euros “goes in the right direction, but it is not enough”
Yannick Jadot estimates that the compensation of 100 euros per year to help the most modest motorists “going in the right direction, but it’s not enough”. Emmanuel Macron announced on Sunday September 24, during his television intervention on France 2 and TF1, new aid to compensate for the high price of fuel, “limited to workers” modest.
“I much prefer an energy check, whether it be a rebate or what the tariff shield was for a long time, which cost very, very expensive and which mainly benefited those who have large cars, but do not have no need for help”explains Yannick Jadot.
Glyphosate in the EU: “The Commission is acting to satisfy the right and the far right”
On October 13, the Twenty-Seven will vote on the European Commission’s proposal aimed at renewing the authorization of glyphosate in the European Union for ten years. For the former environmentalist MEP and now senator from Paris, Yannick Jadot, with this proposal, “the European Commission is today acting in a completely political manner to satisfy the right and the far right in Europe, by putting the environmental agenda aside.”
“You realize that the European Commission is proposing to renew Monsanto’s glyphosate while in the United States, Monsanto has been ordered to pay 10 billion dollars for 10,000 victims of diseases linked to glyphosate, we are totally crazy”, asserts the ecologist. In reality, in 2020, the German group Bayer, owner of Monsanto since 2018, negotiated with several tens of thousands of American plaintiffs with whom it was in court, and committed to paying them around $10 billion in exchange for dropping the charges. With this agreement, Bayer did not admit any fault. The company has, however, been condemned on several occasions, notably by the French courts in 2020 which found it guilty of the poisoning of a French farmer.
Immigration: Emmanuel Macron is “a fanatic of indifference”
After Pope Francis’ speech on Saturday September 23 in Marseille, in which he warned European leaders against “the fanaticism of indifference” faced with the deaths of refugees in the Mediterranean, Yannick Jadot believes that “When the Pope speaks of the fanaticism of indifference, he is facing Emmanuel Macron, who is a fanatic of indifference.” Furthermore, he believes that in his interview on the news of TF1 and France 2, Sunday October 24, Emmanuel Macron released “just about every cliché the far right has had on immigration for years.”
“It is the Pope who is realistic. It is the Pope who is pragmatic”, continues Yannick Jadot. According to him, “we are doing a very small part of welcoming refugees around the world. What are we going to do when we listen to the right, the extreme right and this government? Are we going to stop welcoming students? We will make our France a stunted, withdrawn country, which no longer welcomes students?”. And ” what mass arrivals?”, he wonders about the 11,000 people who arrived in a few days in Italy and mainly on the island of Lampedusa. 11,000 people “out of 450 million inhabitants in Europe”he says, specifying that it is the “gateway to Europe”.
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