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“A rather constructive exchange” with the Head of State, according to the secretary general of Young Farmers
The majority union in the profession, the FNSEA and the Young Farmers, were received at the Elysée by Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday February 20 in the afternoon. – (FRANCEINFO)
The secretary general of Young Farmers, Pierrick Horel, reacted to the release of this exchange at the Elysée, Tuesday on franceinfo.
They are maintaining the pressure four days before the opening of the Agricultural Show and on the eve of a press conference by Gabriel Attal. A few days after the Rural Coordination (CR) and the peasant confederation, theThe FNSEA and the Young Farmers were in turn received at the Elysée by Emmanuel Macron, Tuesday February 20 in the afternoon. “We have progress, pledges, signals that are going in the right direction, but it is not yet enough at the moment,” reacted at the end of this meeting Pierrick Horel, president of Young Farmers, on franceinfo. He however mentioned “a rather constructive exchange” with the head of state.
“The questions of simplification are again on the table”, as “questions of attractiveness, income for farmers”, listed the unionist. On these subjects which fueled the discontent of the profession in January, “we need strong actions”, he added, noting that the President of the Republic’s speech at the Agricultural Show “will determine the smooth running and good holding” of this event.
Time for “political decision time”
On the eve of an intervention by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on Wednesday morning, the unions declared that they were waiting, not “transcendent new announcements”, but “clarifications and progress points, as was requested at the time of the suspension of the blockages”.
It is now necessary to open “the time for political decision”, declared Tuesday the boss of the majority union FNSEA, Arnaud Rousseau, quoted by AFP. “We consider that our work is done and that we have put in the hands of the public authorities the very clear, very structured elements of what we expect”, he stressed. The situation is now “in the hands of the President of the Republic. It is now up to him to exercise his authority”he added, specifying that the head of state had not made an announcement to them on Tuesday.
Meetings between prefects and agricultural unions launched at the end of January have already resulted in the modification of 63 decrees, which often concern local and specific issues, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.