Tag: standards
Too many green standards for farmers? No, more is needed, according to the French
Paradoxically, the French massively support the farmers’ movement while demanding more standards, reveals a Cluster 17 survey for Le Point. This might seem contradictory, even absurd. And yet, according to…
Agriculture: a tyranny of standards?
French farmers are angry. In addition to their difficult living conditions and salaries that are too low, they denounce a pile of incomprehensible regulations, arm-length forms and are worried about…
Agriculture: “France must stop creating standards higher than those of Brussels”
Christiane Lambert, president of the committee of professional agricultural organizations, COPA and former president of the FNSEA, the main farmers’ union, is the major international guest of the RFI morning…
simplification of standards, GNR, EGalim, organic… Gabriel Attal’s announcements
This Friday, January 26, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced a series of measures during a trip to Haute-Garonne in order to respond to farmers’ demands. After mobilizations in Ile-de-France since…
Farmers more controlled than drug dealers!
It’s hard to imagine the extent to which farmers are monitored in their daily work: by satellite, by helicopter, by inspections. Edifying testimony from Jean-Luc Guérard, from Giscourt, in Meurthe-et-Moselle.…
A journey through the maze of laws and standards
Farmers in particular are protesting against the inflation of standards affecting their sector. They are not the only ones who are fed up with the overflow of laws and decrees…
“Between Stanislas and Averroès, beware of double standards” – L’Express
On one side, the Stanislas high school, a private Catholic establishment under contract in the very chic 6th arrondissement of Paris. On the other, the Averroès high school, also a…
What are the standards that weigh on farmers?
The relaxation of numerous national and European standards is one of the main demands of angry operators. Here are some rules in the viewfinder. “Asphyxiating” and “counterproductive” standards are what…
British farmers rage against variable geometry standards
Anger is brewing among British farmers as the Conservative government moves further and further away from old European regulations on environmental protection and public health. Result: varying standards, and angry…
“Ecological standards that are killing agriculture? It’s false!” launches Yannick Jadot
The environmentalist senator from Paris Yannick Jadot believes that the ecological standards to which farmers are subject cannot be held responsible for the state of health of French agriculture. As…