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France, Ireland and Europe’s powerful farming unions are pushing Brussels to drop many food and drink products from its proposed retaliation against US tariffs.
The European Commission has received floods of objections from business and member states to its list of measures, underlining how the 27 member block might struggle to respond collectively to US pressure.
Jack Chambers, Ireland’s public expenditure minister, warned against “retaliatory and tit-for-tat measures that could worsen a trade dispute” on Friday while Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni told the FT the EU should negotiate over its high duties on some items.
“There are big differences on the single goods,” she said. “That’s what we have to work on to find a good, common solution.”
A ‘dispute’ is when both parties have genuine complaints and are able to be negotiated with. Trump’s starting a trade war for no reason, so doing nothing only serves to normalize his actions.
It always the farmers, biggest supporters of fascism.
I know many farmers, some with large companies, and I can say that most of these associations are infiltrated by the far-right and do not necessarily represent the opinion of the majority of farmers.
I even know of one that lied to its own farmers that it was supposed to represent, saying it was not affiliated with any political party and later it was discovered that it was linked to one of those far-right parties.
But… but we got new trade with Mercosur? Isn’t that what french farmers are rioting about?
