"They are deceiving us": The approval of safeguards for the EU-Mercosur agreement did not satisfy Spanish farmers.

“Our politicians are deceiving us.” That was the phrase that the coordinator of the rural entity in Spain, Unión de Uniones de Agricultores y Ganaderos, Luis Cortés, launched to the press yesterday, during a new and massive tractor protest in the city of Madrid, which had as its concentration point the facade of the Ministry of Agriculture. The mobilization, which involved 367 tractors and 2,500 producers (although the organizers claim that the number of 8,000 participants was reached), once again charged against the free trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur, which in recent hours had a new advance with the approval of the safeguard regulation by the European Parliament. While this introduces a more stringent monitoring mechanism for the agreement, through which the tariff benefits provided could be temporarily suspended if local producers are harmed, for many it is still not enough. “Today there are clauses that are not being met, such as the case of imported ...