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Anger of farmers: Gabriel Attal’s announcements
Anger of farmers: Gabriel Attal’s announcements – (France info)
It was to a farm in Haute-Garonne that Gabriel Attal went to try to calm the agricultural crisis. The Prime Minister announced a simplification plan and the cancellation of the increase on the GNR tax.
The Prime Minister among tractors on a roadblock this Friday, January 26. A few minutes after his speech, Gabriel Attal defended his measures against farmers. Earlier in the afternoon, on a cattle farm in Haute-Garonne, the Prime Minister listened to farmers’ grievances before promising “a shock of simplification”. He thus announced ten measures including a simplification of standards, a reduction in administrative controls and the much-awaited end to the increase in the tax on non-road diesel (GNR).
Some are talking about lifting the barriers
The Prime Minister also promised more controls on companies that do not respect the Egalim law and emergency aid of 50 million for the organic sector. Announcements which rather convinced the farmers he had come to see, some even mentioning a lifting of the dams. “There is a good chance that tomorrow afternoon the highway will be able to operate again”, said Jérôme Bayle, farmer. If Gabriel Attal seems to have convinced his interlocutors, it remains to be seen whether he will have succeeded in convincing the entire peasant world.
