• Jayjader@jlai.lu
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    2 days ago

    Good ; free trade should not come at the expense of regulations on food quality nor worker protections. It’s a shame this only happened in conjunction with farmers currently protesting a culling mandate, and not when the EU-Mercosur signing was initially planned/proposed.

    • kwero@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      From what I understand, in exchange of agricultural products from Brazil and Argentina, these countries will make it easier for large EU corporations to sell cars and planes.

      It’s basically bad for farmers but good for industry.

      In theory, the winners are supposed to compensate the losers. In theory…