{"id":247698,"date":"2025-12-23T14:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/247698\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T14:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:31:13","slug":"taoiseachs-mercosur-for-derogation-link-leaves-bad-taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/247698\/","title":{"rendered":"Taoiseach\u2019s \u2018Mercosur for derogation\u2019 link leaves bad taste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Miche\u00e1l Martin\u2019s comments \u201cutterly unacceptable\u201d says IFA president Francie Gorman\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin at the EU Summit in the Europa building\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/f12e5f54-633a-4a85-b13b-165810f52570.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin at the EU Summit in the Europa building<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Taoiseach\u2019s decision to frame the nitrates derogation and the Mercosur trade deal as part of the same negotiating landscape has left a bad taste among beef farmers, amid fears they could be sold out to secure wins elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Speaking ahead of last week\u2019s European Council meeting in Brussels, Miche\u00e1l Martin said there were \u201cthree to four issues that are central to agriculture\u201d and said the government was looking at them \u201cin the round\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miche\u00e1l Martin\u2019s comments \u201cutterly unacceptable\u201d says IFA president Francie Gorman Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin at the EU Summit in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,61225,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-247698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-ciaran-moran","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115769369549263295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}