"I would like the EU, today, to put in place a shield to protect our farmers against the consequences of this crisis which will make gas and a certain number of basic necessities for our farmers more expensive", added she pleaded on the sidelines of a trip to the Paris Agricultural Show.
Faced with the EU's "dependence" on "a number of large countries for our supplies", "the question raised by this crisis is that of our European sovereignty", added the candidate. LR during a press briefing, anticipating "very strong consequences for the agricultural world".
According to Ms Pécresse, "this question of agricultural sovereignty will arise in the coming months in an acute manner", she added, calling for "taking measures" quickly "to ensure the agricultural independence of Europe, feed his people.
For the candidate from the right, "we must tell our young farmers that agriculture has a future, guarantee them their income, lower the standards, the charges" to have "an agriculture that shines", she said. to be worth.
“Tomorrow with global warming, we will have famines on our doorstep and we need to continue feeding the planet” and “it is even more important today when two major agricultural producing countries are at war”, a- she again indicated.
LR presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse at the Agricultural Show, February 28, 2022 Porte de Versailles, in Paris GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT AFP
In the middle of the afternoon, Valérie Pécresse will go to Matignon for an information meeting for presidential candidates on the conflict in Ukraine and the sanctions imposed on Russia, an initiative that she deemed Monday "desirable to be kept informed of all the initiatives taken by France".
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