In this new episode of La Loupe, we explain to you what this “Green Pact” contains and the fears it arouses with Valentin Ehkirch, journalist in the Climate section of L’Express and Isabelle Ory, correspondent in Brussels.
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The team: Mathias Penguilly (writing and editing), Charlotte Baris (presentation) and Jules Krot (production).
Credits: BFM Business, Euractiv, Euronews, France 24, LN24, RMC
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Charlotte Baris: In recent days, the anger of French farmers seems to have calmed down, but this is not the case in the rest of Europe. In Germany, Spain and even the Netherlands, operators are still mobilized and if you have listened to the latest episodes of La Loupe, you know that they are very angry against the European institutions. Last week, you may have even seen these images of Place du Luxembourg in Brussels, where pallet fires were lit, just meters from the European Parliament. A statue was also torn down, the police received numerous projectiles before responding with water hoses. After several days of peaceful demonstrations, tension had escalated.
The grievances of these farmers against Europe are numerous: the Common Agricultural Policy, firstly, which they find too restrictive on a normative level, then the free trade agreements, which could open the door to extra-national competitors. Europeans or the Green Deal, supported by the Commission and in particular its president, Ursula Von der Leyen. And precisely, the subject of our podcast today is this famous “Green Deal”, which has been at the heart of the action of the European Commission since the last elections in June 2019. Today, more than ever, it is the subject of a lot of criticism and we’ll tell you why in this episode.
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Anger of farmers: the great hopes of a ChatGPT for farmers
France of technos and France of farmers: the figures of the divide
Mercosur: “By opposing this free trade treaty, France is weakening its voice in Europe”