European governments are seizing on the pandemic to push a protectionist agenda that equates eating local products with patriotism
This inward turn has made some powerful figures worried about the consequences for fair competition in the EU's single market.
The distribution of national state aid for crisis-hit farmers is another source of disquiet in Brussels.rules All EU farmers already benefit from far laxer antitrust rules on price setting and forming cartels than other industries, but there is a risk, some say, that a state aid splurge by richer countries will drive an even fatter wedge between farmers' relative competitiveness across the bloc.such as €30 million for Finnish farmers, over €35.5 million for Latvian farmers and a €100 million loan guarantee scheme for Italian agricultural SMEs.
Juan Corbalán García, the Brussels head of Spanish agri-food lobby Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias, said: "The Netherlands can support its sector with a level of support that the rest of the European market cannot and in the end we will have a market with unfair competition."
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