A year after the crisis, Gabriel Attal boasts his agricultural assessment – Liberation
The features are drawn. Just back from a three -day trip to Ukraine, Gabriel Attal continues with a tour At the Agricultural Show. He evokes a trip of which « We don't come back unscathed »from kyiv to Odessa, via Zaporijjia, 30 kilometers from the front line, from meetings with bereaved mothers and mutilated veterans to the visit of an underground school, which allowed him to measure the « Determination of Ukrainians to hold at all costs. » The head of deputies together for the Republic (EPR) comes back with the idea of pleading to « The continuation and strengthening of our military support » to Ukraine and to carry « The acceleration of the European Union membership calendar ».
Immersed without transition into the crowd of the Porte de Versailles, in Paris, he folds in the imposed figures, the heepecotte of the Limousine muse, mugs in the flight, complimented the young apprentices qualified for the final of the beef coast under the banner « Naturally flexitarians »while his team directs: « Now we go to sheep! »
A macronist deputy observes the cloud of Renaissance activists who have come to ensure the atmosphere and glean selfies. And have fun: « There are some who saw cows only on a brick of milk. » « Oh, he took the lamb! » Exults, moved, a supporter. Even without them, the welcome is pretty good. « A year ago, it had already gone well, » Recalls Gabriel Attal. Picked up by the agricultural crisis when he arrived in Matignonhe had been able to wander quietly, despite the recriminations heard in the aisles. Three days earlier, Emmanuel Macron had suffered the jibesin a chaotic marathon under extreme tension. A contrast that had helped to feed the presidential resentment vis-à-vis his Prime Minister, suspected of reluctant to damage himself.
A year later, agricultural anger fell a bit, but the concerns remain, fed by the outings of Donald Trump who wishes Impose 25 % customs duties on European products. « Viticultural sectors and spirits are very worried », sighs the former Minister of Agriculture Stéphane Travert.
Sitting to cut the end of fat with the representatives of young farmers (JA), is listening to concerns about the difficulties of resuming farms. On The 67 commitments he had made in February 2024he recalls having « Do everything of the regulatory order », sells emergency aid and the agricultural orientation law (LOA), debated in June 2024 in the National Assembly. « Then there was the dissolution and, among the harmful effects, the postponement of the law. » Landed from Matignon, the deputy of Hauts-de-Seine had asked his successor, Michel Barnier, to register the text at the Senate agenda, in vain. The law has just been adopted, right hair before the living room.
But now that he is no longer in controllers, can he still weigh? « In Matignon, I never said that with the LOA and the decrees I took, we were going to resolve all the problems of agriculture. I had other projects I wanted to carry. I hope the government will take them back, and with the EPR group, we will do it ”, he promise. Folded on the benches of a burst hemicycle, Attal wants to believe that the little room for maneuver of the executive gives a lever to the assembly: « I see that, as there is no majority, the unions turn less to the government than the Parliament to pass a measure. It is a role that is new to me, and our group will be essential. ”
To the president of the FNSEA, Arnaud Rousseaucrossed on the stand of the agricultural union, he assures: « It is not because I am no longer in government, that I disinterested in the subject, I want to continue to help agriculture. » The president of the FNSEA keeps a « Very precise memory » of the former Prime Minister with whom he « Negotiated three nights in a row in Matignon ». And awaits him at the turn on the bill Senator LR Laurent DUPLOMB which must be examined in early April in the Assembly. Contested by environmental associations, the text dynamites a series of standards for « Raise constraints to the exercise of the farmer profession » and provides for the reautivating, as a derogatory and exceptional basis, of acetamipride, insecticide of the family of neonicotinoids, harmful for pollinators and birds.
« I assumed to say that it was now necessary that France did not prohibit molecules before EFSA (European Food Safety Authority, Editor's note), When she is seized, did not speak, Attal slice. Otherwise, we have French farmers to whom we prohibit this molecule when our European neighbors use it. ” When he received Arnaud Rousseau recently at the Assembly, Gabriel Attal told him that he was not sure to have the unanimous support of macronist deputies, in particular on this controversial measure. « We will watch his vote and that of his group, warns the big boss of the agro-industry and leader of the FNSEA. It's up to him to do this work of conviction. «
