The FNSEA and the Young Farmers urged the government on Wednesday to take into account “the entirety” of their grievances to achieve an end to the crisis. The “hundred very concrete proposals that we will present this evening to the Prime Minister […] is not a basis for negotiations, it is a complete request in which there is no question of shopping,” warned the president of the FNSEA, Arnaud Rousseau, yesterday. “They sent their proposals,” confirmed Matignon in the evening.
Earlier on Wednesday, the first French farmers’ union and the JA had released a detailed list of these demands. They demand in particular “immediate responses on remuneration” including emergency aid to “sectors most in crisis”, and in the longer term, the implementation of a “project to reduce standards”, particularly environmental ones. On this aspect of immediate aid, Arnaud Rousseau noted that “the estimates are in progress, but obviously we are talking about several hundred million euros”.