Olivier Biscaye's editorial: “Farmers no longer want to be lulled by illusions, words, images and political comedies”

Olivier Biscaye, directeur de la rédaction de Midi Libre.

Les agriculteurs n’ont nul besoin de compassion, mais bien d’actions concrètes et durables pour se donner une perspective. Leur mouvement nécessite de préciser les solutions, le calendrier et le pilote. 

Who has the hand, France or Europe ? Where will the solutions come from, from the Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau or from the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen ?

To respond to the farmers' protest, the government must specify who is in charge of decisions, and within what reasonable timetable.

Political competition cannot be fought on the backs of land workers, no one will accept it

Farmers do not need compassion, but rather concrete and sustainable actions to give themselves perspective. As they no longer want to be lulled by illusions, words, images and political comedies.

Political competition cannot be played on the backs of the workers of the land, no one will accept it, the first interested as much as the French, as a whole attached to agriculture and to its actors whose self-sacrifice they know as well as the permanence of efforts and adaptations.

Their movement is not a complaint but a signal that the evil of despair is deep.