Brussels, 09/05/2016 (Agence Europe) - Under pressure from ten or so member states led by France and Ireland, as well as from MEPs and professional organisations, the European Commission renounced the inclusion of beef and ethanol in the EU's revised offer to Mercosur on Wednesday 4 May.
According to an EU source close to the issue, the Commission decided at the college of commissioners' meeting on 4 May not to include import tariff quotas for a time on beef (78,000 tonnes) and ethanol...