EU bureaucracy ready to sign deal with Mercosur, but France and Ireland object

Sunday, December 24th 2017 - 17:21 UTC

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The European Union now hopes to conclude a trade deal with the Mercosur bloc by February next year. EU agriculture chief Phil Hogan admitted that there were still 15 “open issues”, following a “difficult” meeting with the Mercosur countries in Buenos Aires last week. Read full article

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golfcronie
Surprise, surprise France and Ireland vetoing beef imports
Dec 24th, 2017 - 07:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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darragh
No surprise at all. Varadkar, already demonstrating that he is completely out of his depth bowed to the EU junta with regards to the UK and now finds that the EU is standing four-square behind Ireland so that it can stab us in the back.

Fecking typical of the unelected European gravy-train riders.
Dec 27th, 2017 - 12:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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