Agricultural crisis: “We want a “balanced” EU-Mercosur agreement, pleads the president of the FDSEA of Marne

They are called to remobilize. One year after the agricultural crisis from winter 2023the French operators will demonstrate againthis time to tell them opposition to the proposed free trade treaty between the European Union and the Mercosur. “We want an agreement that does not unbalance what we do at home, at the agricultural level”recalled this November 15 the president of the FDSEA de la Marne and secretary general of the FNSEA Hervé Lapie on France Bleu Champagne-Ardenne, on the occasion of a special day dedicated to the agricultural crisis.

“In the Mercosur agreement, 180,000 tonnes of imported poultry are planned” countries of the South American Economic Alliance, as well as “99,000 tonnes of cattle. And what really bothers us is that the environmental and social practices are not the same” that in France, “in particular on growth activators and antibiotics that we have no longer been allowed to use since 2006”he adds. In the Marne, the FDSEA calls for cover municipal signs of the department from this Sunday, November 17before a stroll in Châlons-en-Champagne planned for the next day.