“An economic and ecological misinterpretation”: the EU-New Zealand trade agreement irritates French farmers

“If it’s a political choice, let us know. But it is still us who are going to pay the price. Like the words of Michèle Boudoin, President of the National Sheep Federation (FNO), it is an understatement to say that the free trade agreement ratified on June 30 by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen , and the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, tense farmers and industrialists of the French agri-food industry.