Pekka Pesonen, Secretary General of the EU’s farmers’ and agricultural cooperative organisations Copa and Cogeca, speaking in Brussels on Friday 14 September, called on European Commission negotiators “not to sacrifice the agricultural sector in exchange for benefits elsewhere” in the round of trade talks with Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay) that took place in Montevideo, Uruguay from 10 to 14 September.
Little progress would seem to have been made in the talks,...