While the 27 member countries of the European Union will decide in October on the renewal of the authorization of glyphosate, Paris senator Yannick Jadot criticizes, Monday on franceinfo, the attitude of the European Commission.
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On October 13, The Twenty-Seven will vote on the European Commission’s proposal to renew the authorization of glyphosate in the European Union for ten years. Yannick Jadot, former environmentalist MEP, now EELV senator from Paris, affirmed, Monday September 25 on franceinfo, that “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.“
In reality, in 2020, the German group Bayer, owner of Monsanto since 2018, is negotiating with several tens of thousands of American plaintiffs with whom it is in court. The company then agreed to pay them approximately $10 billion in exchange for dropping the charges. With this agreement, Bayer does not admit any fault. The group has, however, been condemned on several occasions, notably by French justice in 2020, which found it guilty of the poisoning of a French farmer.
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Yannick Jadot believes that the methods of assessing the danger of glyphosate by the European Chemicals Agency must be changed: “The problem with the European authorities is that they rely on Monsanto data to validate authorizations. Monsanto which was caught in the act of lying to science, lying to public authorities.“
The senator hopes that France “will vote against a new authorization of glyphosate“, and that Emmanuel Macron will be faithful to his 2017 commitment to completely abandon glyphosate, a promise to date”not held“.