The Head of State went to Outarville, Friday, September 9, to meet farmers struck by the economic and energy consequences of the war in Ukraine.
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The Fanfare L’Alouette de Pithiviers (Loiret) aligns to welcome Emmanuel Macron. “Make a little blow now, says a man. Afterwards, it’s going to be Marc Fesneau, and he will play us from the pipe. It would be enough for him to give us 100 billion however.” The farmers have always liked to tickle their Ministers of Agriculture is part of the job. A hundred meters further, the presidential convoy arrives in the middle of the flat fields dotted with Beauce wind turbines. For his first trip to France since the start of the school year, Friday, September 9, the Head of State went a second consecutive year to the meeting of young farmers, gathered at the lands of Jim, in Outarville (Loiret).
And the trumpets and drums of pithiviers will have to wait a little more. Tasting of cheese, discussions on the price of milk, on the damage caused by starlings, the President of the Republic takes the time. “Agriculture is at the confluence of all the crises we are experiencing,” he said a little later in a tent. In recent months, operators have undergone the consequences of the war in Ukraine (increased price of fertilizers and energy, among others) and have endured a historic drought, “an episode that had not known for decades “, underlines Mr. Macron.
The Head of State promises that the 600 million euros in harvest insurance – promised here even in 2021 – will soon be available, and announces the creation of a fund to promote transmissions between generations, before to denounce the “Agri-Bashing” by implicitly targeting certain environmentalists. “All those who are conducting a catastrophic discourse on our agriculture, they prepare what? A France where we will have to import our products which will come from abroad with health and ecological standards significantly lower than ours,” he, in black suit and tie.
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Because the news once struck the Elysian agenda, torn between the international and the French affairs. Friday morning, the day after the launch of his National Refoundation Council (CNR) in Marcoussis (Essonne), the President of the Republic went to the British embassy to deposit a white rose in front of a portrait of Queen Elisabeth II , died Thursday at the end of the day. “His death leaves in us a feeling of emptiness. For you, it was your queen, for us it was the queen,” he said little before in an English video posted on Twitter. In the next two weeks, the Head of State will go to the funeral of the Sovereign before attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Before other trips. Despite this, his entourage ensures that he will also continue to carry the CNR in the territories, by participating in local variations this fall.
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