16:40 – For Marc Fesneau, the aid promised to farmers should not weigh down the state budget
“Now that the aid envelopes have been established, it is up to us to look from a budgetary point of view at how to ensure funding” without damaging the State’s accounts, declared the Minister of Agriculture. All the aid announced by Gabriel Attal on February 1, to relieve the tax burden on farmers and implement the partial reimbursement of the tax on non-road diesel, amounts to 400 million euros according to Bercy. European funds should be mobilized.
13:08 – The Minister of Agriculture calls on mass distribution to take responsibility
Marc Fesneau, on LCI, this Sunday February 4, does not consider that the movement launched by the farmers is over. “The subjects highlighted remain for a certain number of them before us”, he declared before calling on all the actors to take their responsibility, in particular, the large distribution which the minister points the finger by adding that “the race for the lowest price is a race against sovereignty”.
????️ “I saw major retail players saying the opposite of what they will say in the days to come. Everyone must take their share of responsibility.”@MFesneauMinister of Agriculture, is the guest of @mchantrait in “The LCI Sunday event” ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/zsGqr4ldiV
— LCI (@LCI) February 4, 2024
09:36 – Unions expect “first results” by the Agricultural Show
The presidents of the majority agricultural unions, Arnaud Rousseau and Arnaud Gaillot, who had called “to suspend the blockades and enter into a new form of mobilization”, warned yesterday that “no one should consider that it is over this evening “. The FNSEA and the Young Farmers are waiting for the measures announced by the government to materialize before February 24, the date of the inauguration of the Agricultural Show; without satisfactory initial results, the mobilization could resume.