Announcements made following the meeting between EU Member States’ agriculture ministers and the European Commission “fall short of addressing the urgency and challenges faced by Europe’s farmers and agri-cooperatives”, while the manoeuvring around the EU-Mercosur trade agreement is only exacerbating “frustrations”, according to a Copa-Cogeca press release published on Tuesday 13 January (see EUROPE B13783A1).
Meeting the day before to analyse the situation, Copa-Cogeca’s...