Published on 20/11/2024 11:15
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eye price floor
the eye of 8 p.m.
(THE EYE OF 20 HOURS / FRANCE 2)
Faced with angry farmers last winter… the President of the Republic himself entered the arena by proposing a shock measure to guarantee their income: “There will be minimum prices, floor prices”, he said. declared attacked at the Agricultural Show in February 2024. Today and while agricultural anger is taking to the streets again… This strong measure has disappeared from the public debate. The Eye of 20H tells you the story of abandonment.
In the Marne, Christophe Van Hoorne raises 130 lambs and a few cattle. He paid himself 600 euros of salary per month so at the time the presidential promise satisfied him. It is even a demand that he carries with his union: the peasant confederation. “If we had a minimum price on beef, pork, lamb, that would allow us to be much more certain of our income, and much less worried. he explains to us.
Last spring, Environmentalists seized the opportunity and transformed Emmanuel Macron’s promise into a bill. Despite the opposition of the presidential majority, the text was adopted… before being buried with the dissolution of the national assembly. The law rapporteur today denounces the government’s double discourse: “It made a lot of people very uncomfortable. Everyone gargles and everyone is doing it again today, going to the farms, putting on boots to go to the farms… On the other hand, as soon as we ask them to take measures that could change the lives of thousands of farmers, we are retreating from agribusiness“, annoys Marie Pochon, environmentalist deputy for Drôme.
Who got the skin of the presidential promise? The FNSEA never supported the measure.
In the crowd at the agricultural show that day, alongside the ministers: an executive from the majority union was amazed. He tells us today: “This proposal came out of the hat, during the agricultural show, says Yannick Fialip, president of the FNSEA economic commission. It was more of an element of communication from the President of the Republic at a time when it was complicated for him. It was not at all in line with what we had been working on with his government at the time. The risk is to be too disconnected from the world price or the European price, your products can arrive much more expensive in supermarkets and be bought less often.
Floor prices: the FNSEA does not want them. Of which act. The next day, the union boss almost reframes the President of the Republic: “J“I don’t believe that his economic policy, as he has pursued it from the beginning, is to Sovietize the economy, so we asked for some clarification and explanations.” tance Arnaud Rousseau, president of the FNSEA.
Opponents of the measure seem to have been heard. This afternoon, the Minister of Agriculture definitively buried the promise of floor prices.
