Europe 1 with AFP 11:09 a.m., February 25, 2023, modified at 11:10 a.m., February 25, 2023
Visiting the Salon de l'Agriculture, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron spoke about the rise in prices in supermarkets.
The latter calls on distributors to "make an effort on their margins" to limit inflation.
The Head of State also called for the creation of a "sobriety plan" on the water.
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President Emmanuel Macron called on supermarket groups on Saturday to contain their margins to fight against soaring food prices.
"Those who have to make an effort on their margins are the distributors," declared the Head of State during his visit to the Agricultural Show.
Mercosur deal 'not possible' if Latin America fails to meet environmental standards, Macron says
French President Emmanuel Macron warned on Saturday that a trade agreement between the European Union and the Mercosur countries would be "not possible" if they did not respect the same environmental constraints as the Europeans.
“An agreement with the countries of the Latin American continent is not possible if they do not respect the Paris agreements (on the climate) like us and if they do not respect the same environmental and health constraints that we impose to our producers," said Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of his visit to the Agricultural Show.
Emmanuel Macron calls for a "sobriety plan" on the water
President Emmanuel Macron called on Saturday for "a sobriety plan on water" on the model of "energy sobriety", evoking "the end of abundance, during a visit to the Paris Agricultural Show. , against a backdrop of record rainfall deficit at the national level.
"We know that we will be confronted as we were last summer with problems of scarcity (of water): rather than organizing ourselves under duress at the last moment with conflicts of use, we must plan all that ", explained the Head of State, calling for "better harvesting of rainwater", "to have fewer leaks in the water networks" and "better distribute the use of drinking water according to the users", in particular by "continuing to produce and invest in hill retentions".
The president announces that he will visit China "at the beginning of April"
Emmanuel Macron announced on Saturday that he would visit China "at the beginning of April", calling on Beijing to "help us put pressure on Russia" in order to "stop the aggression" and "build peace".
The day after China published a document calling for peace talks and a "political solution", the French head of state, who spoke on the sidelines of a visit to the Agricultural Show , explained that this peace was "possible only if it goes through a halt to Russian aggression, a withdrawal of troops and respect for territorial sovereignty and the Ukrainian people".