Highlights: After a long agricultural sequence, the question of ecological transition was addressed this Thursday March 7 in Bordeaux during the World Impact Summit. Each in turn, the candidates next June, or their representatives, take the stage to praise their ecological label. “I am today the most ecological candidate present in these European elections,” believes Léon Deffontaines, head of the list of the French Communist Party. The far right is present at the meeting, via the National Rally deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy.

Slowly, but surely, the European campaign is starting to take off. After a long agricultural sequence, the question of ecological transition was addressed this Thursday March 7 in Bordeaux on the occasion…

Europeans: the heads of the list almost all at the meeting of the World Impact Summit

Slowly, but surely, the European campaign is starting to take off.

After a long agricultural sequence, the question of ecological transition was addressed this Thursday March 7 in Bordeaux during the World Impact Summit.

A meeting that most parties did not miss, except one and not the least.

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Manon Aubry, LFI candidate for the June European elections, speaks during a hearing of the head of the list for the elections at the World Impact Summit, in Bordeaux, March 7, 2024. AFP - CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT

By: RFI Follow

With our special correspondent in Bordeaux,

Aurélien Devernoix

“

Welcome to this sequence of the grand oral of the Europeans!

» Each in turn, the candidates next June, or their representatives, take the stage to praise their ecological label.

“

I am today the most ecological candidate present in these European elections

,” believes Léon Deffontaines, head of the list of the French Communist Party, who is surprised by the absence of his counterpart from Renaissance, the presidential party.

“

It says that there is a lack of political direction, I think,

” he said, “

because in reality, Ms. Hayer is faced with her contradictions between the Green New Deal which she supports 100% and Emmanuel Macron who said the Green New Deal, we need to review it.

Not really a surprise for environmentalist MEP David Cormand.

“

It’s the big boomerang return where we want to attack ecology as a scapegoat,”

he believes.

The Renaissance presidential camp, for example, almost admits that they use elements of language from the extreme right to talk about ecology.

The far right is present at the meeting, via the National Rally deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy.

“

We are rarely asked about ecology, and that is why I came here with pleasure to defend our positions

,” he explains.

The fact remains that for many parties, ecology is presented this year more as a transversal subject than an issue in itself, swallowed up for the moment by the war in Ukraine, the agricultural crisis or austerity policies.

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Europeans: the heads of the list almost all at the meeting of the World Impact Summit

Europeans: the heads of the list almost all at the meeting of the World Impact Summit

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