Agriculture and trade, Éric Zemmour
Free trade agreements (Mercosur): Has rallied to « l'exception agriculturelle » [“the agricultural exception”] defended by the Coordination rurale
Direction of change: decrease, compared with current law.
The lever. Position on the European Union's trade agreements, including the agreement with Mercosur: ratification, mirror clauses, rejection. Direction rule: ↑ more agreements or openness; ↓: refusal, protections.
« C'est vous, la coordination rurale, qui m'avez convaincu sur l'exception agriculturelle. Je n'étais pas sur cette ligne au départ mais je pense que c'est vous qui avez raison. »1Translation by the editorsIt was you, the Coordination rurale, who convinced me on the agricultural exception. I was not on that line at the start but I think you are the ones who are right.
Words of Éric Zemmour, Sud Radio, entretien à la manifestation d'agriculteurs contre le Mercosur, 8 January 2026. Position taken from public statements, not from a written programme.
No programme released. Positions taken from public statements, words of associates or documents of the candidate’s party, each dated and sourced; last recorded on 18 October 2026.
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Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule
Current law. EU-Mercosur agreement: the Council authorised its signature on 9 January 2026 by qualified majority, despite France voting against. On 21 January 2026, the European Parliament referred it to the CJEU for an opinion (334 votes for, 324 against, 11 abstentions), which suspends its consent. The Commission announced provisional application of the interim trade agreement from early May 2026; its actual entry into application has not been checked. Trade policy is an exclusive competence of the EU.
Horizon. Not applicable.
Limits. No measurable direct budgetary effect. Customs duties are an EU own resource. Sectoral effects (agriculture, industry) are a matter for impact studies, outside the static costing. A national « sortie » [“exit”] or « refus » [“refusal”] has legal force only for the part of the agreement subject to national ratification.
- Mercosur : le Parlement européen saisit la Cour de justice (Club des juristes / Aleteia, via résultat de recherche), 2026-01-22: « Recours devant la CJUE soutenu « avec 334 voix pour, 324 contre et 11 abstentions » ; la saisine suspend le processus de ratification. »
- Mercosur : la justice de l'UE rejette un recours de la Pologne (Terre-net, via résultat de recherche): « La Commission européenne avait annoncé l'application provisoire de l'accord à compter de début mai 2026. »
How to read these amounts. These are static costs and revenues, with no feedback effect, over a full year: nothing on growth, employment or the revenue that economic activity would gain or lose. A higher net cost does not on its own make a worse policy, nor net savings a better one: each programme rests on an economic model (demand-led stimulus, lower compulsory levies, consolidation of the public accounts…) that the cost schedule does not settle. GDP itself measures a volume of activity, not well-being or the usefulness of what is produced. Economic models and feedback effects.
- Sud Radio, entretien à la manifestation d'agriculteurs contre le Mercosur, 8 January 2026. Words of Éric Zemmour. Position taken from public statements, not from a written programme. Read the source (Sud Radio, entretien à la manifestation d'agriculteurs contre le Mercosur).
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