Great attention should be paid to safeguard clauses and reciprocity agreements, but the EU-Mercosur agreement should not be erected as a totem against which to hurl one’s frustration at problems in the sector that actually have an entirely different origin: first and foremost, the low profitability of the land trades compared to the rest of the economy
Penalties for unfair practices in 2023-2024 amount to only 665,000 euros against estimated damages of at least 350 million annually. in essence on prices and unfair practices the ‘dolce far niente’ of Italian politics continues. Remember this when you see the next tractors in the square or when you hear about the sad affairs of groups like Auchan, Casino, Carrefour Italia and others
What do these cuts mean? A major strategic error, which harms the United States first and foremost and the world in general. The Usaid cuts were a point of friction between Pope Francis and Donald Trump’s government
The possible consequences of the cessation of US assistance to fourteen ‘famine’ countries. In addition to hunger and death there will be more instability, more wars and more fundamentalist Islamism
Farmers, even in Italy, are taking to the streets. They do not feel represented by associations that do not protect their income because, in so many years, no one has tried to solve the problems of food, ‘from the field to the table’. So many words and no deeds. And the situation is aggravated by new taxes
“(…) the European Court also addresses itself to the national legislator, requiring him to introduce criminal laws proportionate to the seriousness of facts that cause damage both to the environment and to the lives of people living in a particular area. It is also crucial, according to the Court, that statutes of limitation are guaranteed to be compatible with the complexity of proceedings and that the government refrains from adopting measures, such as criminal shields, that guarantee the impunity of polluters. In the past, the absence of an effective regulatory framework was one of the causes of the failure of some well-known judicial initiatives, such as the one against Eternit owners for asbestos deaths.”
Butter – the cost of which has risen by 83% year-on-year – is made from milk fat and cream and therefore its production requires a lot of milk, the global supply of which has declined, partly due to the diseases that have affected dairy cow herds in Europe, and partly due to the high cost of feed. Then there is the issue of climate change that causes milk prices to skyrocket as Granarolo confirms
Mercosur: possible dangers and opportunities to be discovered
In March 2023, Giorgia Meloni said in parliament that she does not deny climate change but does not want to ‘damage the economy or cause unemployment’. But funds to protect the environment would be part of the GDP if only they were used: the environment forgotten: eight billion unspent and task forces never born
