Melina Facchin, edited by Ugo Pascolo 09:42, January 26, 2024
A few hours before Gabriel Attal's announcements, the anger of farmers continues to spread. If the demonstrators will listen very attentively to the Prime Minister, particularly on taxes and administrative simplification, skepticism is also required on the blocking points.
“The government must take action, stop talking, act.” Friday, a few hours before Prime Minister Gabriel Attal's announcements to put an end to the anger of farmers which continues to spread across the country, the demonstrators are waiting for concrete, clear announcements. “What could stop the movement is a better selling price, strict application of the Egalim law: we must not sell our products at a loss,” says a farmer, on this point of blockage at the exit from Strasbourg, on the A35.
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“Act on taxes”
“Already to start, we must [act on] taxes on gas, electricity, charges,” adds another demonstrator. “We absolutely need to simplify the paperwork,” says yet another, before a farmer a little further on points out that the government should legislate on fallow land, which represents “4% of [our] arable land.” Still, despite everything, “it won’t solve anything,” according to them.
Because it is skepticism that dominates and many do not expect much from Gabriel Attal's announcements. “I don’t think he will make announcements that will calm things down. We are still in a globalized system, we have a system that is led by Europe,” recalls a demonstrator. “I don’t see how now, with the wave of a magic wand, he could solve everything in a week,” says a farmer.
“The evil is too deep”
And another angry farmer decides: "The evil is too deep, for me given his lack of knowledge of the agricultural world, it is not tomorrow that he will stop the movement."
If the government's announcements disappoint, the hundreds of farmers demonstrating on the A35 have already planned to return at the start of the week.