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- europeans@lemmy.world
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- europeans@lemmy.world
A free trade deal between the European Union and Australia has unravelled despite early optimism, with Canberra saying Monday it could take years until negotiations resume
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We will have to close some zoos
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Celebrating the UK trade deal? The one that Eustice described as “not very good”?
Eustice is useless. I prefer the experts’ opinion…
Would you also accept the National Farmers Union as experts? If so I have some bad news.
Or this expert, with a rather balanced view. https://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/uktpo/2022/03/04/the-uk-australia-fta-can-we-call-it-a-good-deal/
The UK Australia trade deal looks more like it was signed to score political points at home than something that benefits Britain in any major way.
Not really, they’re a lobbyist group.
Please explain why an Australian farmer would bother selling beef for less than they can get for it in Asia?
And from your link
Overall, the value of the UK-Australia FTAs lies mostly in the geopolitical tilt towards the Asia-Pacific region and the CPTPP rather than in its economic value to the UK economy
Which one? NFU or Lawsociety? Or both?
Yeah, like I said, no real benefit to Britain, other than to show that the gov’t is capable to sign deals, thin as they are, to score some political points at home.
The NFU is an insurance company and lobbyist. The Law Society is just that, a professional association. Governed by royal charter, it has a duty to public interest. The NFU does not. It’s a lobby group for fat landowners.
So, no real benefit, other than to high margin, high skill, professional services exports?
They’re both lobby groups, don’t kid yourself.
So, the benefits are the ones that Britain gave up with 27 countries in order to sign it with one on the other side of the world?
If you throw away £1000 and then find £1, it’s that a benefit? I don’t see it that way.
