“I can’t accept the idea that we started the negotiations without thinking about farmers. That was the hardest part to negotiate. We negotiated extremely hard. We have been very firm”, said the European Commissioner for Trade, Maroš Šefčovič, who on Thursday 30 January staunchly defended the EU/Mercosur trade agreement before the European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture (see EUROPE B13559A4).
He added, in the face of criticism from some MEPs, that the Commission always...