“The embers are burning, nothing is finished,” asserts Arnaud Rousseau. For the president of the National Federation of Farmers’ Unions (FNSEA), invited this Sunday on the BFMTV set, agricultural anger is not about to subside. All the measures put on the table by the executive will not have been enough to extinguish it. “We need concrete achievements. The subject is to make the announcements made concrete,” explained the man who managed to regain control of the protest movement. “There are things that are not very clear in terms of simplification of standards and a form of cacophony on the Green Deal. So as long as we don’t have a clear answer, nothing comes of it,” he insists.
Before warning: “To think that everything will stop between now and the meeting with the President of the Republic in a fortnight is a mistake. This will not be the case”. We must therefore expect new punchy actions carried out “on the initiative of the field”. And this until the European elections and the publication of the new Egalim law. “Each department retains the initiative to take a certain number of actions because the tensions are not the same depending on the territory,” explains Arnaud Rousseau.
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“We realize that what is told to us (by members of the government) and the very concrete variation that we have through the administration do not give the same thing,” said the boss of the FNSEA. Before taking an example: Prime Minister Gabriel Attal promises “a single annual administrative control”, an initiative “that the ministers confirm”, but “a certain number of control bodies say that this is not possible”. And deplores: “The translation for the farmer is that there is a gap between what is said to the government and what the representatives of the administration say.”
