Change of address. After opposing it, the government will now have to work on “minimum prices.” From the Agricultural Show, whose inauguration was interrupted, Emmanuel Macron defended, this Saturday, February 24, the application of “minimum prices” to protect the remuneration of farmers, within the framework of the preparation of a new law that will govern relations between food actors. “In each sector an indicator must be built and this must serve as a floor price to guarantee agricultural income,” said the Head of State.
A month earlier, the Minister of Agriculture, Marc Fesneau, denounced “demagogic proposals” evoking the proposal to establish minimum prices presented by La France Insoumise.
“These demagogic proposals [comme] the minimum price obligation that we can only do on the price of French products” due to European standards “and that we cannot do on the price of other countries, what does that matter? This puts French agricultural products in unfair competition,” lamented Marc Fesneau, interviewed on this topic on Franceinfo.
“Cuba or the Soviet Union”
A bill presented by LFI deputies was narrowly rejected at the end of November, in particular due to opposition from the presidential majority. The text proposed, among other things, establishing “more remunerative” minimum prices for farmers.
Olivia Grégoire, then Minister of SMEs and Commerce and who also assumed the Consumer portfolio during the last restructuring, denounced measures that are reminiscent of “Cuba or the Soviet Union with the successes that we know about them.”
Source: BFM TV
