Agriculture: trade union organizations maintain pressure before a meeting at the Élysée

Alexandre Chauveau / Photo credits: IAN LANGSDON / AFP / XOSE BOUZAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP 8:38 a.m., February 14, 2024

After Gabriel Attal, Emmanuel Macron receives the farmers' unions this Wednesday: the Rural Coordination and the Peasant Confederation this afternoon, before the FNSEA and the Young Farmers next week. If Tuesday's meeting between the Prime Minister and the FNSEA went "well" according to the farmers, they nevertheless intend to maintain pressure on the executive. 9 days before the opening of the agricultural show, and despite the promises of the executive couple, the unions remain very vigilant.

Nine days is therefore the time Gabriel Attal has to transform his announcements into effective measures. Otherwise, the FNSEA does not rule out a resumption of mobilization, and above all a "tailor-made" welcome to Emmanuel Macron next week, Porte de Versailles.

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"Software change"

"The agricultural world expects a lot from a change in software. Today, the one who has the card to change software is the President of the Republic. We have been shown that we are responsible people, with clear demands, that we had responsible but determined actions, and that no one had an interest in things getting out of hand. There, we had given ourselves time for collective work, and this collective work must result in this change software", declared Arnaud Rousseau, president of the FNSEA.

Arnaud Rousseau who expects clear announcements from the Head of State on the ongoing negotiations at European level. The unions finally invite the president to deliver his vision of what French agriculture should be. In the meantime, the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, promised to provide an update each month with the unions on the progress of the announcements made at the beginning of the month.