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Emmanuel Macron at the Berlaymont HQ. France's agriculture minister has already argued that the EU should 'export its standards, and stop having foreign standards imposed on its own single market' (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

'Agriculture as sovereignty' under the French EU presidency

With less than one month to go until France's presidency of the Council of the European Union kicks off, Paris is being roundly criticised by some of its European counterparts for seeking to push back deadlines for free trade agreements with Chile and New Zealand.

While some EU countries seem in a hurry to conclude these agreements, in their haste they may not have fully measured the impact which poorly crafted agreements could have on European agriculture.

As France has made cle...

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Nicolas Tenzer is a foreign policy and security analyst and guest professor at Sciences-Po Paris. He is the author of three official reports to the French government and the author of 22 books.

Emmanuel Macron at the Berlaymont HQ. France's agriculture minister has already argued that the EU should 'export its standards, and stop having foreign standards imposed on its own single market' (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

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Nicolas Tenzer is a foreign policy and security analyst and guest professor at Sciences-Po Paris. He is the author of three official reports to the French government and the author of 22 books.

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