Christophe Clergeau calls for a vote from the European Parliament to counter the setback on the greening of the CAP

As Christophe Clergeau announced at the start of the week, he filed, with more than a hundred deputies including members of the social and ecological left delegation and the Green group, an objection to the commission's request of agriculture to force through the delegated act which lowers European ambitions on permanent grasslands, which are nevertheless real carbon sinks, essential to the fight against climate change.

In 24 hours, he submitted more than 100 signatures. This allows an objection to be filed at the next plenary session in Strasbourg - the last of the term.

“The European Parliament will have its say. This is already a first step for parliamentary democracy. We must now do one for the future of sustainable agriculture and for the climate, in two weeks, in Strasbourg. I will be there to defend the - modest - agroecological dimension of the CAP. » recalls Christophe Clergeau, MEP from the Socialists and Democrats group in charge of agriculture and the environment.

“The right wants to make farmers believe that their problem is the Green Deal. But we all know that it is not a delegated act on permanent grasslands that will solve their income problem in the face of the damage of liberalism and unfair competition. Postponing the implementation of the CAP to the national level will not improve the situation of farmers but, on the contrary, will reinforce distortions of competition within the EU and aggravate farmers' income problems. » says the MEP.

List of 44 individual signatories in addition to the members of the Verts/ALE group: Christophe Clergeau - S&D (initiator), Marc ANGEL - S&D, Marie ARENA - S&D, Gabriele BISCHOFF - S&D, Udo BULLMANN - S&D, Delara BURKHARDT - S&D, Beatrice COVASSI - S&D, Pascal DURAND - S&D, Jens GEIER - S&D, Raphaël GLUCKSMANN - S&D, Sylvie GUILLAUME - S&D, Dietmar KÖSTER - S&D, Aurore LALUCQ - S&D, Pierre LARROUTUROU - S&D, Karsten LUCKE - S&D, Nora MEBAREK - S&D, Theresa BIELOWSKI - S&D, Maria NOICHL - S&D, Evelyn REGNER - S&D, René REPASI - S&D, Thomas RUDNER - S&D, Andreas SCHIEDER - S&D, Joachim SCHUSTER - S&D, Günther SIDL - S&D, Birgit SIPPEL - S&D, Kathleen VAN BREMPT - S&D, Tiemo WÖLKEN - S&D, Anja HAZEKAMP - The Left, Anne-Sophie PELLETIER - The Left, François ALFONSI - Greens/EFA, Benoît BITEAU - Greens/EFA, Damien CARÊME - Greens/EFA, Anna DEPARNAY-GRUNENBERG - Greens/EFA, Claude GRUFFAT - Greens/EFA, Martin HÄUSLING - Greens/EFA (on behalf of the group), Lydie MASSARD - Greens/EFA, Caroline ROOSE - Greens/EFA, Mounir SATOURI - Greens/EFA, François THIOLLET - Greens/EFA, Marie TOUSSAINT - Greens /EFA, Thomas WAITZ - Greens/EFA, Jozef MIHÁL - Renew Europe, Michal WIEZIK - Renew Europe.