While the Green Deal for Europe is currently being widely criticized in agricultural demonstrations, Pascal Canfin believes that “we will not make the ecological transition of agriculture without the associated economic models”.
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“I feel totally aligned with what I have always stood for“, affirmed this Thursday on franceinfo, Pascal Canfin, Renew MEP and president of the environment committee of the European Parliament. He was questioned about the European green pact or “Green Deal“, of which it is “one of the architects“.
This pact is widely criticized during this period of agricultural crisis. “We will not make the ecological transition of agriculture without the associated economic models. If it is degrowth, it will fail and vice versa, the future of agriculture goes through transition“ecological,” argues the elected official.
Climate change is the primary threat to agricultural yield, and therefore to production and income.
Pascal Canfin, Renew MEPat franceinfo
He concedes, however, that there are still points.to improve“.”Today, we impose the famous standards and rules on farmers and not on all the processors of our food, Bonduelle, Danone, Nestlé, etc.“, explains the MEP. Thus, he pleads for “a sort of Egalim law on a European scale“, aimed at guaranteeing remuneration at a fair price.
Coming from the presidential majority, Pascal Canfin also defends his position on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). In 2022, “it was voted for by us and we accept it, but also by the Republicans and by the National Rally“. He denounces “hypocrisy” of the head of the RN list in the European elections, “Jordan Bardella buying new boots, going to the farmyard and saying: the Common Agricultural Policy is scandalous“.
According to him, the CAP rests “on both legs, the economic leg and the environmental leg“. Pascal Canfin continues: “Without the CAP, without the transfer of 9 billion euros to farmyards, there is no more agriculture in France“.