Anger of farmers: Emmanuel Macron assures that France “opposes” the Mercosur agreement and would not “sign it as is”

The President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron affirmed on Sunday November 17 in Buenos Aires that France would not “sign as it stands” the free trade treaty between the European Union and Mercosur, saying he wanted to “reassure farmers” and ” continue” to oppose it.

“France opposes this agreement”

“France opposes this agreement. And I will tell you: President (Javier) Milei, he told me himself that he was not satisfied with this agreement,” Macron declared, resulting from a visit to Argentina during which he spoke twice with the Argentine president. “We do not believe in the pre-agreement as it was negotiated,” explained Emmanuel Macron, questioned by the press on the airport tarmac, before leaving Argentina for Brazil where he is to participate in the summit of G20. Asked about the possibility that the European Union could override the French position, he replied “I don't think so”, saying “I recognize that the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has very great respect for France “.

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“We cannot ask our farmers […] to change their practices, to do without certain phytosanitary products”, in order to have “high quality” production, and “at the same time open our market to massive imports of products which do not respect the same criteria”, underlined the Head of State “Several countries within Mercosur”, and “several other European countries”, besides France, “are not satisfied with this agreement”, noted Emmanuel Macron again “So, we are going. continue to work firmly to defend our model”, he insisted, believing that “if we are all reasonable, there is a possible path, but it will not be to the detriment of our farmers”.