the meeting with the FNSEA scheduled for Tuesday at the Elysée has been postponed

A meeting initially planned for Tuesday at the Elysée with the first agricultural union, the FNSEA, was postponed. “Things took longer”the objective initially set in mid-March “is no longer tenable”, justified, Sunday March 17, a ministerial source to franceinfo. During the Agricultural Show, Emmanuel Macron promised that he would bring together agricultural unions at the Elysée in mid-March. The date of March 19 had initially been set, but according to the same source, this meeting “can only be held at the conclusion of emergency elements” made by the government in the face of the agricultural crisis.

“The president asked that the executive put energy into it”adds this same source, specifying that the meeting at the Elysée also aims to “build the national and European strategy also including inter-professions and sectors.”

The president of the FNSEA, Arnaud Rousseau, had already announced on Saturday on the postponement of the meeting, adding that “the conditions to emerge from the agricultural crisis are not met”. “There are only around ten measures confirmed out of the 62, it has to go faster, we are not going to see the president in these conditions”, estimated the FNSEA to France Télévisions on Sunday. The agricultural union specifies, however, that a meeting with the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, is planned for late Monday morning.