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“The investment must be strengthened to produce more.” The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, candidate for his re-election, hammered the message when presenting his program, Thursday, March 17, in the section devoted to Agriculture. A desire already expressed by the host of Rue de Varenne, Julien Denormandie, at an informal meeting of the Ministers of European agriculture organized on March 2 to evoke the impact of the war in Ukraine. On this occasion, he reaffirmed the “nourished mission” of agricultural policies and asked “to establish European food sovereignty”. With a goal: “Liberate production potential in Europe.”
Before specifying: “In the first place, the decay logic desired by the European strategy” Farm to Fork “[” from the farm to the fork “] must be deeply questioned. On the contrary, it is necessary to produce more on Our territory. “Even questioned expected of” the obligation in the future CAP [Common Agricultural Policy] to devote 4% of agricultural surfaces to so-called “non-productive” surfaces.
A line of conduct totally in line with the position defended by the National Federation of Farmers Trade Unions (FNSEA). “The European Union [EU] must provide the food sovereignt into absolute priority,” said the union in a statement published on March 2, asking “fast and concrete acts” and arguing “market consequences” World food on the soil of Europe, the Atlantic to the Urals “.
” Europe can not afford to produce less “
The “Farm to Fork” strategy defended by the European Commission considering by 2030, among other things, a halving of the use of pesticides, 20% of the fertilizer and a target of a quarter agricultural surfaces grown in organic. Even if it had not yet binding, this text was like a restless red cloth in front of the holders of productivist agriculture, including FNSEA.
This union expressed its opposition to this policy well before the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. “These objectives must be reviewed because in no way Europe can not afford to produce less,” Macron said, who has quantified the potential production of this strategy, which “rested on a world before The war in Ukraine “, at 13%. The removal of the obligation to devote 4% of agricultural areas to fallows, as wanted by the next CAP, was also brought by Mr. Denormalie to Brussels.
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