Agricultural organisations and cooperatives in the EU (Copa-Cogeca) “cannot support the EU/Mercosur free trade agreement as it stands”, Copa president Christiane Lambert said on Friday 19 February at a press conference on the agricultural situation in 2021.
She also criticised the plan to include ‘social cross-compliance’ in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
With regard to the trade agreement with Mercosur, Lambert reiterated the arguments that “too many negative signals”...