US Edition'We Cannot Accept an Enormous Gap in Standards Between EU and Mercosur': COPA-COGECA's Tsiforou
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After a massive agricultural mobilisation in Brussels this Thursday, the European Commission announced the postponement to January of the signing of the trade agreement between the European Union and the Mercosur countries. Present on the spot, Pascal Gouttenoire, Vice-President of the FNSEA Rhône, returns to a busy but hopeful day for farmers.
'We cannot accept an enormous gap in standards between EU and Mercosur': COPA-COGECA's Tsiforou
Farmers in the EU have protested on many occasions over unfair foreign competition and the viability of their businesses. They gathered again in Brussels on December 18, while an EU summit was going on, this time focusing their ire on the Mercosur free trade agreement between the EU and Latin American countries. We speak to Elli Tsiforou, the Secretary-General of COPA-COGECA, the umbrella organisation of farmers and agri-cooperatives in the EU.
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