France, which will hold the rotating Presidency of the EU Council as of January 2022, will make it a priority to tighten controls on agricultural imports of the EU27 in order to impose European environmental standards, French Agriculture Minister Julien Denormandie said on Monday 6 September in Slovenia.
On the sidelines of the informal meeting of the EU Agriculture Ministers, the French Minister told the press that he would prioritise reciprocity in trade and ‘mirror clauses’.
The aim,...