10
Jul
2025
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Post-2027 Common Agricultural Policy (debate)
Madam President, as draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on the Environment on the future CAP, I am delighted to have been able to vote to end this unhealthy competition between agriculture and the defence of our environment. For us, the line is clear: defend our farmers, our breeders, our terroirs, and guarantee their future in the face of foreign competition that tramples on our unique and more virtuous agricultural rules and traditions. Although public opinion is changing, including in this Chamber, the European Commission is preparing to force through the agreement with Mercosur, which directly threatens our agricultural sovereignty and sacrifices the quality of our production. We fight against this treaty and, at a minimum, for the inclusion of mirror clauses, and defend this simple common sense measure: our farmers first, before South American meat shipments, which break prices, degrade quality and destroy our local jobs. Without this, there is no food sovereignty, which is the original objective of the CAP. I repeat it here loud and clear: No credible CAP without protected borders! No ambitious CAP without putting our farmers, especially young people, back at the centre! With the National Rally, we will fight to the end against this agreement with Mercosur and against all agreements that betray our peasants and threaten to make them disappear.