France’s Environment Minister Resigns over Emergency Bill Allowing 2 Banned Pesticides
Monique Barbut quit after lawmakers approved temporary exemptions for two pesticides critics say threaten bees, despite a petition that drew over 2 million signatures.
- France's Environment Minister Monique Barbut resigned after the government passed a bill allowing the temporary use of two banned pesticides, acetamiprid and flupyradifurone.
- The legislation allows the use of the pesticides on certain agricultural sectors for a limited time, despite concerns about their impact on human health, the environment, and honeybees.
- Barbut stated that she no longer had the means to carry out her ambitions due to the forces opposing environmental goals becoming too powerful.
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France: A minister announces his resignation due to the adoption of a measure on pesticides, then renounces Macron's request.
Announced on the departure, the minister of ecological transition, Monique Barbut, has finally agreed to remain in office, announces the minister's office, this Wednesday, July 22, at the AFP.
The new rule, which allows the use of chemicals in agriculture banned in France in 2016, opens a crisis in the French government
France: Environment minister quits over pesticide bill
Monique Barbut submitted her resignation in protest over the reintroduction of pesticides that scientists say harm human health as well as bee populations. But President Emmanuel Macron reportedly refused to accept it.
El Periódico
A new blow to the fragile French executive of Sébastien Lecornu, who governs with a weak parliamentary majority. French Minister of Ecological Transition Monique Barbut confirmed her decision to submit her resignation to President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday following the adoption on Tuesday of the emergency agricultural law, which reintroduces in exceptional cases two pesticides prohibited in France and harmful to bees.
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