“The agreement between the EU and Mercosur is not the problem of French agriculture”

Lhe agreement between the European Union and Mercosur crystallizes all the tensions in the agricultural world. Presented as a mortal threat to French agriculture, it has become the symbol of the protest. But doesn’t this focus mask much deeper problems? Jean-Luc Demarty, who spent twenty years at the head of the Directorates General for Agriculture and then Foreign Trade of the European Commission, where he negotiated the Union's main multilateral and bilateral trade agreements, delivers a scalpel analysis . For this former advisor to Jacques Delors, who supervised the negotiation of Mercosur until its provisional conclusion in 2019, the agreement is a false problem which masks the real structural difficulties of French agriculture…