On Tuesday 24 April, Tunisia’s Prime Minister Youssef Chahed announced during a press conference with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker that Tunisia and the EU had agreed to continue the agreement on olive oil quotas exempt from customs duties (see EUROPE 11954).
The two parties agreed on a further 30,000 tonnes for 2018, in addition to the 56,700 tonnes already existing under the association agreement. To help the country, which is badly affected by a fall in tourism...