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Varadkar: It would not be fair on EU farmers to ratify Mercosur deal

The Taoiseach has said it “wouldn’t be fair” to ratify the EU-Mercosur trade deal in its current form, as farmers in Ireland protested in solidarity with EU-wide demonstrations. Convoys with hundreds of angry farmers driving tractors created chaos ...

01 Feb 2024 at 21:42

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Tipperary farming: ICMSA and IFA say Mercosur talks need to be 'parked'

Two of the country's leading farm organisations have called for any deal on Mercosur to be parked following the EU's decision to delist 20 Brazilian meat processors. The decision showed the “commercial and environmental absurdity” of continuing ...

25 Apr 2018 at 19:00

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Tipperary farming: Taoiseach's French visit is an opportunity to support Macron on Mercosur

IFA President Joe Healy said Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s first visit to France this Tuesday to meet President Emmanuel Macron was an opportunity to discuss the Mercosur negotiations and strongly support the tough stance taken by President Macron. ...

24 Oct 2017 at 19:00

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Tipperary farming: IFA protest over proposed Mercosur deal on beef

The IFA protested this Wednesday morning outside the EU Commission offices in Mount Street in Dublin over the EU Commission’s proposal to offer Brazil and other South American countries further access to the EU market for beef and poultry as ...

04 Oct 2017 at 14:30

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Tipperary farming: Brazil failing to hit EU standard amid reports of 'bribery'

Brazil does not have the same traceability standards as EU producers. This was the main conclusion of a report by the European Parliament Committee on Agriculture following a recent visit by a delegation of MEPs from the Committee to Brazil ...

23 May 2018 at 18:00

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Tipperary farm leader Pat McCormack says Mercosur decision can avert 'catastophe' in beef sector

The decision that any trade agreement between the Mercosur group and the EU will now have to be ratified by the parliaments of each individual member state has given Ireland a perfect opportunity to stop “a potentially catastrophic ...

31 May 2018 at 19:00

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Tipperary farming: EU should scrap Mercosur while Amazon burns

It is time the EU Commission stood up to Brazil's President Bolsonaro and told him bluntly that Europe will not tolerate the burning of the rainforests to clear land for more beef exports as part of the Mercosur deal, according to ...

23 Aug 2019 at 11:23

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Tipperary beef farmers say government ignoring their plight despite Dail protest

Tipperary beef farmers, members of the Beef Plan movement, say the government is ignoring last week’s farmers’ protest and is ‘setting sail into the summer recess’. They say it is one week on since the Beef Plan Movement gathered ...

19 Jul 2019 at 10:22

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Tipperary farming: Angry reaction to EU’s Mercosur deal on beef

Farming reaction to the proposed Mercosur deal has been as swift as it has been harsh. The deal, agreed between the EU and South American countries at the weekend will see around 99,000 tonnes of bef coming into the European ...

04 Jul 2019 at 21:30

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Tipperary farming: Hogan admits Mercosur concern is 'understandable'

The EU's concession of a beef quota to the Mercosur countries is of understandable concern to Irish beef farmers, according to Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan. However, the commissioner said that given the ...

05 Jul 2019 at 19:00

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Tipperary farming: Taoiseach urged to intervene in Brussels to stop Mercosur

The Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, has been urged to intervene at the highest levels in Brussels to stop a bad EU-Mercosur trade deal, which would do untold damage to our €3bn beef and livestock sector. “In view of the ...

19 Jun 2019 at 18:30

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Tipperary farming: IFA says it's time to put an end to Mercosur talks

With EU Commission officials in Montevideo in Uruguay this week to reconvene the Mercosur trade talks, IFA president Joe Healy said the time had come for EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan put his foot down ...

10 Sept 2018 at 19:30

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