In recent days, several national media have reported the release of the Report-indictment of 2018 of the Court of Auditors on the work of ONSSA (National Office of Sanitary Safety of Food Products). The extreme weakness of the work of the supervisory authority over our Moroccan agro-industrial sector can be summed up by the sentence […]
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The EU has, in more or less advanced projects, free trade agreements with many countries including Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay in the framework of Mercosur and with Canada and also Japan. The Bloc also has plans for new agreements with several other countries. The EU puts this type of agreement that it signs with […]
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President Trump‘s statement last Friday, mentioning the superiority of Californian wines over French ones, will certainly be a milestone. So far, the Americans have been content to defend their agri-food products, of which wine is a part, in the face of the repeated beating of the Agricultural EU (synonymous with Agricultural France). Before, the goal […]
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The statistics of 2018, unveiled recently, showed that, for the first time in recent history, France has become a net importer of food. The CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) has finally benefited other EU countries which, like Poland (products of plant origin) and Spain (products of animal origin), have taken EU market shares from it. Although […]
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Usually, we reserve the writings of this blog for the activities of the agri-food sector. For the purpose of this article, we join to our interest the Moroccan pharmaceutical sector, which we know, and African on which we have echoes. The reason is that we collaborated and / or worked with this sector for many […]
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The (asymmetric) rules applied to trade with the countries of the African continent have, for the most part, been posed and maintained by one or other of the EU countries, ex-colonizers of Africa. From the economic and commercial point of view, yesterday and today, they aim to keep our countries firmly attached to the Europeans […]
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The entry into force of Acfta (African Continental Free Trade Area) is announced for May 30th. Needless to say, the leaders of our countries, charged with negotiating the rules that will support the realization of this ambition, have a lot of work ahead of them. They can of course, for financial or convenience reasons, call […]
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In Addis Ababa, the African Union has just announced the entry into force of Acfta (African Continental Free Trade Area) for May 30th. This date will mark the beginning of the process of commercial and economic emancipation of our continent. But to move towards a better integration of African countries, and boost trade between all […]
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In antiquity, the prohibition of eating or not a given product was appreciated empirically. If someone fell ill after eating a food, wisdom recommended that the food in question be avoided later. This practice was applied to decide of what is consumable from what was not to be until the end of the Middle Ages. […]
Continue reading →In an article in this blog of last December – addressing the intransigence of the attitude of France, who was speaking on behalf of the EU, about issue of trade negotiations desired by the US – we warned against the possible isolation of Paris in case where Germany, among others, was to be conciliatory on the […]
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