Mercosur is on everyone’s minds. While Emmanuel Macron went to Argentina this weekend, before going to Rio in a few hours for the G20 summit, French news concerns the President of the Republic. Farmers are mobilizing again to protest against the standards, but also to continue to protest against the free trade agreement with Mercosur, the South American trade alliance which brings together 80% of South American GDP.
Questioned on the question, upon his arrival in Latin America, Emmanuel Macron assured him: France will not sign the agreement in its current state. Invited this Monday morning on the set of La Grande interview Europe 1-CNews, the National Rally of the North deputy, Sébastien Chenu, is annoyed by the president's comments. “Emmanuel Macron is lying to us,” he assures. “Emmanuel Macron lies, he betrays rurality, he ultimately betrays France by having allowed France to weaken, to weaken its voice within the European Union,” he continues.
No search for allies within the Union
“In reality, and implicitly, he has never been hostile to Mercosur. First of all, it is part of his logic and logic of major trade, of international free trade treaties. It is his ultra-liberal logic,” criticizes the vice-president of the National Rally, at the microphone of Sonia Mabrouk.
“At no time have we seen it mobilize within the European Union, countries that could be our allies. There are countries that could be our allies, I am thinking of Poland for example. But we had to undertake, it must be done. Today, the tour of European countries which could constitute a blocking minority, I do not see him doing this,” he regrets.
Unfair competition
Faced with the tensions that the agreement causes within French agriculture, but also more broadly in Europe, the idea of dividing the agreement into several parts is taking shape. “Madame Von der Layen understood that it was necessary to tip her hat to France and for that, they will try to cut the treaties into slices. But in the end, the result will be the same, that is to say that our farmers will be subject to unfair competition from countries which do not respect the same standards”, annoys Sébastien Chenu.
“But I will say the bottom of my thoughts, which is that in fact Emmanuel Macron has given up on French agriculture as he did like him and his predecessors,” he concludes.
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