In a specific analysis note recently seen by EUROPE, the Tunisian Observatory of the Economy (OTE) states that European support to Tunisian olive oil in April 2016 "did not materialise in tangible terms".
"Quite the opposite, the export quota to the EU for duty-free olive oil fell from 27% in 2015 to 19% in 2016, in other words a fall of 8%", the OTE study states.
After heated debates in the European Parliament, the EU "granted a temporary additional export quota of 35,000 tonnes for...