Barbara Pompili, Minister of Ecological Transition in Paris on September 8, 2020 -

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Barbara Pompili, who was absent during the debate in the Assembly, returned on Sunday, on the set of Cnews, to the controversy around the temporary reintroduction of bee-killing neonicotinoids on the grounds of saving the French beet industry

The Minister of Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili said on Sunday "to fully assume" the temporary reintroduction of bee-killing neonicotinoids to save the beet industry, to which the Assembly has given the green light.

"I try not to fall into the white or black"

On Tuesday, the National Assembly adopted the bill to save the beet industry, but dividing the majority, LREM having recorded a record dispute in its ranks.

"I take full responsibility for sometimes difficult choices, but I try not to fall into the white or black," said on CNews Barbara Pompili, who was absent during the debate in the Assembly.

“I am an environmentalist, I want to get rid of these pesticides.

Simply when we have an obstacle, either we can put our heads in the sand as some do by saying + there's only, we have to +, or we act responsibly, that's what I have tried to do, ”she defended herself.

For the Minister, the most important point of the debate is to know "whether or not we want to continue to manufacture sugar in metropolitan France?"

"An exception that will last a very short time"

“When you have to decide whether or not to keep a sector, you have to anticipate it.

However, until a short time ago, we thought that there were alternatives;

we realize that they do not work.

And so on this small part of the use of neonicotinoids, we make an exception that will last for a very short time, three years maximum, and after that it will be over, ”she said, saying to herself“ very proud that France or the first country where there will be no more neonicotinoids thanks to the action we have taken ”.

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