COPA-COGECA WARNS EUROPE’S BEEF SECTOR COULD BE DEVASTATED BY PLANNED MERCOSUR DEAL
March 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A ROW has broken out between the European Commission and European Union (EU) food and farm federation Copa-Cogeca over its claims a planned trade deal with South America's Mercosur would destroy Europe's beef sector.
The Commission's trade spokesman John Clancy told just-food such allegations were "exaggerated". He said the EU Common Agriculture Policy would help fund beef producers facing new Latin American competition "to cover the higher costs [partly] due to the high level of environmental and animal welfare standards that ...
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