[bondant]

Some people support this law, not because they think those pesticides are harmless, but because other EU country can still use these pesticides which give them an economic advantage. I don't understand while they are not instead asking for a European law to ban them. So every EU country would play with the same rules.

[nico42]

> I don't understand while they are not instead asking for a European law to ban them

That is exactly what they are asking for, but it's not up to them to decide for the other countries.

[antilisp]

I don't know how it is in other european countries, but most French people wouldn't even think about it. They are used to the EU laws being dictated one sidedly by people they don't know and haven't voted for, and then parroted by French politicians with no resistance.

Not that I know every French people

[jraph]

> Some people support this law, not because they think those pesticides are harmless, but because other EU country can still use these pesticides which give them an economic advantage

A race to the bottom. I understand the idea, but I don't find it great.

> a European law to ban them

... would indeed be a better solution.