Mercosur deal is "parked indefinitely", agree German and Irish ministers

Mercosur deal is “parked indefinitely”, agree German and Irish ministers

Friday, September 25th 2020 - 09:35 UTC

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Ireland dairy industry has praised the German Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner who has said she is not going to push forward efforts to seal the Mercosur Trade agreement and underlined she had serious concerns over the deal. Read full article

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Pugol-H
quelle surprise.
Sep 25th, 2020 - 10:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Chicureo
Pugol-TTWH

It's a clear fact that the Europeans jealously protect their agriculture. Small sized dairy producers cannot compete against large scale operations in countries like Brazil, Argentina, the USA and Canada.

Saying that, European butter quality is far superior to what we have in the entire Americas. We actually buy for ourselves Kerry Gold brand butter from Ireland.

Cheers!
Sep 26th, 2020 - 07:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pugol-H
Chicureo-CMoTA
And that is their market, the quality product.

Basically the EU pay farmers to produce product which is then sold at artificially high prices, protected by tariffs and quotas from competition.

To this day 40+% of EU money, is spent on less than 10% of its population, especially in places like France.

Ultimately it is not sustainable, however there is always a market for the top of the range product, just ask Rolls Royce,

Saludos.
Sep 27th, 2020 - 12:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Scotsboy1
This just means the UK is going to clean up in South America then! Let the games begin!
Sep 27th, 2020 - 10:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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