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Independent Ireland Galway West candidate Noel Thomas has warned that the Government’s increasingly soft approach to the EU–Mercosur trade deal risks undermining food standards that people rely on every day when shopping, working and raising families.

A national community protest against the Mercosur trade deal is taking place in Athlone, County Westmeath on Saturday January 10 at 11am.

A national community protest against the Mercosur trade deal is taking place in Athlone, County Westmeath on Saturday January 10 at 11am.

Independent Ireland MEP Ciaran Mullooly and Agriculture Spokesperson Michael Fitzmaurice TD have tonight issued a united national call to action, urging farmers, farming organisations, co-ops, agri-businesses, meat factories, feed merchants, rural businesses, rural workers and public representatives of all parties and none to stand together at a national demonstration due to take place in January in opposition to the Mercosur trade deal.

Ciaran Mullooly, MEP for the Midlands–North-West constituency, has written to Independent TDs in the region urging them to make opposition to the EU-Mercosur trade deal a red line issue in the upcoming government formation talks.

Despite the fact that EU Commissioner for Agriculture, Phil Hogan, said in May that beef was “off the menu” in Mercosur trade talks and notwithstanding the removal of Tariff Rate Quotas from the exchange of offers, the EU Commissioner for Trade, Cecilia Malmström, has told Independent MEP Marian Harkin that this is not the case.