{"id":277278,"date":"2025-07-20T11:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T11:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/277278\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T11:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T11:57:18","slug":"23-year-old-student-rallies-half-a-million-french-against-controversial-farming-law-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/277278\/","title":{"rendered":"23-year-old student rallies half a million French against controversial farming law \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The petition launched by Eleonore Pattery \u2014 an unknown university student from Bordeaux with a focus on environmental rules \u2014 calls for repealing the text, arguing that it is &#8220;a scientific, ethical, environmental and health aberration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday the number of signatures passed the threshold of 500,000. Beyond that threshold, the heads of parliamentary groups or parliamentary committees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.assemblee-nationale.fr\/dyn\/17\/divers\/texte_reference\/02_reglement_assemblee_nationale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can propose to organize a parliamentary debate on it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The president of the National Assembly economic affairs committee, Aur\u00e9lie Trouv\u00e9, from the left-wing France Unbowed party, said she will make that proposal in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is the first time it happens in the history of the National Assembly,&#8221; a jubilant Trouv\u00e9 told POLITICO over the phone on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>But, for the debate to happen, the proposal has to first get the nod of the National Assembly&#8217;s Conference of Presidents, an organ which gathers key lawmakers including the leaders of permanent parliamentary committees like Trouv\u00e9. The Conference of Presidents will meet again in September.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope that we will be able to have this debate,&#8221; Trouv\u00e9 said, warning that ignoring the petition would be a &#8220;democratic denial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the text can&#8217;t be repealed during the parliamentary debate, the success of the petition is a blow for the government and for farmers&#8217; lobbies that have defended the measure on a symbolical level.<\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s Constitutional Council is also looking into the text and could censor part of it if the council considers them to be contrary to the constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The petition launched by Eleonore Pattery \u2014 an unknown university student from Bordeaux with a focus on environmental&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[34,2000,299,27645,6644,36,37,38,2348,104626,104627,5111,54160],"class_list":{"0":"post-277278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-emmanuel-macron","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-farmer-protest","12":"tag-farmers","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-francois-bayrou","15":"tag-french-politics","16":"tag-history","17":"tag-insecticides","18":"tag-organs","19":"tag-parliament","20":"tag-pesticides"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114885443177237175","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}