the Rural Coordination denounces, at the end of the meeting at the Élysée, “the confinement of Emmanuel Macron in a logic of free trade”

“What I remember from this meeting is the confinement of Emmanuel Macron in this logic of free trade”lamented Thursday May 2 on franceinfo the president of Rural Coordination, Véronique Le Floc’h, after a meeting at the Élysée where Emmanuel Macron received agricultural representatives.

A meeting to discuss the “prospects” of the agricultural sector and “acts the end” of the crisis which shook France at the start of the year. But for the president of the second representative union, “the page is not at all turned”.

“I think that before talking about prospects for French agriculture, we must already resolve short-term problems.”

Véronique Le Floc’h, president of Rural Coordination

on franceinfo

According to her, the head of state “is a prisoner” free trade. “Export is a word that has come up several times” during this work meeting, she said. “Except he forgets to say that imports are increasing faster than our exports”, she snapped. The opportunity to remind Véronique Le Floc’h that “it is this globalization, this non-protection of agriculture, which means that today we are in an impasse”. The union calls “with one agricultural exception” in order to “protect agriculture”.