Both conclusions are a kind of means to limit the bureaucracy that farmers applied for, organizing large -scale protests last year.
The bill is to be discussed in the National Assembly on Monday, but its supporters claim that ecological and leftist parties have tried to block the procedure, reporting hundreds of corrections to the text before the debate. The bill was approved by the French Senate in January and is supported by the Minister of Agriculture Anna Genevard.
The new wave of protests was organized by the influential agricultural lobby of Fnssea and Jeunes Agriculteurs, at least one leftist union of farmers is against them.
The head of Fnssea Arnaud Rousseau said on Monday that the protests would last until Wednesday, but admitted that they would be mainly symbolic. “The goal is not to irritate the French, but to publicize what we have already preached a year and a half ago, namely that French agriculture is in danger,” Rousseau said in an interview with Franceinfo.
However, leftist opposition parties in France, in particular the defiant France and the Greens, are afraid that the French government and the European Union are going too far in activities aimed at protecting the environment, including in the use of pesticides, as a result of last year's mass demonstrations.
On Monday, the ministers of the European Union agriculture meet in Brussels to discuss the Common Agricultural Policy of the EU, as well as trade with Ukraine and the United States.
Next week, more radical organizations of farmers are to go out into the streets, opposing the ecological regulations of EU.
