Global stakes — In the night of July 20 to 21, the French National Assembly — the lower house of Parliament under the Fifth Republic — passed the agricultural emergency bill by 296 votes to 224. The chaotic vote exposed deep fractures within a France divided over pesticides and an executive branch appearing to govern through sheer improvisation. What unfolded in the hemicycle goes beyond routine legislation: it marks a major political and ecological turning point with implications for all European nations grappling with the same tension between productivist agriculture and environmental preservation.