The suspension of the Ecophyto plan, announced Thursday by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal to calm the anger of mobilized farmers, sparked a chorus of criticism from ecologists and environmental NGOs. Pesticide reduction plans have been "ineffective" for 15 years, government spokesperson Prisca Thevenot said on Friday.
“We must move away from punitive ecology and into an ecology of solutions,” insisted the government spokesperson, stressing that “the first to want to put an end to these products”