Overview
- More than 80 groups rallied people across dozens of French cities this weekend to oppose the 2025 law and a fresh bid to bring back banned insecticides.
- Senator Laurent Duplomb’s February 2 proposal seeks a time‑limited, tightly regulated reintroduction of acetamipride and flupyradifurone for crops including sugar beet, apples, hazelnuts and cherries.
- The Constitutional Council previously censured the law’s acetamipride clause for lacking sufficient safeguards on duration, treatment methods and affected sectors.
- Organizers plan a large Paris gathering on Wednesday to coincide with the Assembly debate triggered by the 2.1 million‑signature petition.
- Turnout varied locally, with reports of up to 300 people in Lille and about 150 in Lyon, while major farm unions FNSEA and Coordination rurale back pesticide reauthorization as necessary for certain producers.