Correspondent in Brussels
“The
Spanish tomato is unbeatable, unbeatable!
» At the end of the meeting of the Twenty-Seven, Thursday in Brussels, the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, went to the front line to defend his country's agriculture, even going so far as to suggest that Ségolène Royal come on site to taste all the varieties of the red fruit.
The former socialist Minister of the Environment had, a few days earlier, crushed Spain, the leading exporter of fruit and vegetables in Europe.
“
I tell you that Spanish organic is fake organic and that Spanish fruits and vegetables do not respect French standards, they should not be on the shelves
,” she declared on BFMTV, even describing their organic tomatoes as “
inedible
.
On Friday, she declined the invitation of socialist Pedro Sanchez, while maintaining her criticism.
“
When health conditions are unequal, then competition is unfair.
And drags us down
,” she said indignantly…
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