HASWhen farmers have returned to the path of mobilization, it is fashionable among the political class to unite around the fight against the deregulation of agricultural markets. From Matignon to the right-wing parliamentarians and the supporters of Emmanuel Macron, passing through the Elysée, we repeat it again and again: France must lead a ruthless fight against all unfair competition in agricultural matters, in particular in the area of the free trade agreement among European countries. European Union (EU) and the Mercosur countries (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia)
Therefore, the left and environmentalists would no longer be the only ones to sound the alarm about foreign production that does not respect our health and environmental requirements. Actually ? In fact, beyond the positions and without waiting for the result of the EU-Mercosur agreement, Michel Barnier’s government continues to deliberately maintain unfair agricultural competition, like the governments of Gabriel Attal and Elisabeth Borne before him.
At issue: the benevolence of these successive governments towards exports, by companies established in France, of pesticides that, however, are prohibited on our soil. This disastrous trade inexorably supplies our stalls with foreign agricultural products treated with substances that we consider too dangerous to be used on our European farms. In short: we supply the entire world with the toxic substances that we ban from our farms and allow them to return to our supermarkets. Return to sender, without taking into account the health of the French, that of foreign agricultural workers and that of our indigent farmers in the face of foreign competitors, authorized to spread what we have legitimately prohibited at home.
The current government and the President of the Republic, who repeat to anyone who listens their opposition to unfair agricultural competition and the free trade agreement with the Mercosur countries, have never worked for the full application of the export bans voted until now by the legislator. in 2018. The EGalim law provided, as of 2022, to put an end to the production and export of pesticides banned in Europe for health and environmental reasons. Successive governments have boasted about it on several occasions: France would then become the first European to plan a measure of this type.
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