Source: Politico
“A petition launched by a 23-year-old student to repeal a new French law on farming has garnered more than 549,000 signatures, surpassing the threshold to be debated in the French parliament — a first in France’s recent history. The French parliament earlier this month adopted a law, dubbed ‘Loi Duplomb’ after the name of one of its proponents, which its supporters say would make life easier for farmers by cutting red tape, but also by temporarily allowing the use of acetamiprid, an insecticide that has been banned in France since 2018. … The petition launched by Eleonore Pattery — an unknown university student from Bordeaux with a focus on environmental rules — calls for repealing the text, arguing that it is ‘a scientific, ethical, environmental and health aberration.'” (07/19/25)