Affare con l’UE renderà il cibo più economico e aggiungerà £ 9 miliardi all’economia del Regno Unito, afferma n. 10
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/19/deal-with-eu-will-make-food-cheaper-and-add-9bn-to-uk-economy-says-no-10
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> Agreement reached to ‘slash red tape’ on food products, in exchange for extended EU access to fishing waters
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> A deal clinched between the UK and EU to remove checks on agrifoods will add £9bn to the UK economy and lower food prices, No 10 has said, as the last-minute agreement was clinched early on Monday morning.
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> The deal – which will grant EU fishers access to British waters for an additional 12 years – will remove checks on a significant number of food products as well as a deeper defence partnership and agreements on carbon taxes.
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> The UK said the deal would make “food cheaper, slash red tape, open up access to the EU market”. But the trade-off for the deal was fishing access and rights for an additional 12 years – more than the UK had offered – which is likely to lead to cries of betrayal from the industry.
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> Officials have hit back at the criticism, arguing that the food standards deal will have huge benefit for fish and seafood exports.
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> The two sides will also begin talks for a “youth experience scheme”, first reported in the Guardian, which could allow young people to work and travel freely in Europe again and mirror existing schemes the UK has with countries such as Australia and New Zealand.
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> The UK said it would be “capped and time-limited”, though there is no agreement yet from the EU on the details.
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> Keir Starmer and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, shook hands on the reset deal at Lancaster House just hours after negotiators finished the final three texts.
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> “It’s time to look forward. To move on from the stale old debates and political fights to find common sense, practical solutions which get the best for the British people,” Starmer said. “We’re ready to work with partners if it means we can improve people’s lives here at home. So that’s what this deal is all about – facing out into the world once again, in the great tradition of this nation. Building the relationships we choose, with the partners we choose, and closing deals in the national interest. Because that is what independent, sovereign nations do.”
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> Central to the agreement is the new agrifoods deal, known as an SPS agreement, which removes red tape on food and drink exports, removing some routine checks on animal and plant products completely. In return, the UK will accept some dynamic alignment on EU food standards and a role for the European court of justice in policing the deal.
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> The deal will not be time-limited, as had originally been demanded by the EU. It was for this that the UK made a major concession for a longer-term deal on fishing, extending the current access for European fishing to UK waters until 2038, having originally offered until 2030. The original trade deal with the EU had suggested there would be annual negotiations from 2026, but the government said this fixed deal would give certainty.
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> A UK government official said the deal for the UK fishing industry was about “protecting their rights and long-term security instead of the merry-go-round of yearly renegotiations that would never plausibly see EU boats leave UK waters”.
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> The government said it would put £360m of modernisation support back into coastal communities as part of the deal, a tacit acknowledgment of the concession.
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> But UK officials said the SPS deal would be a major win for British consumers and should lead to lower food prices and more choice in the supermarkets.
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> It will mean certain products are allowed to be sold in the EU for the first time since Brexit, such as some burgers and sausages, after the 21% drop in exports and 7% drop in imports seen since Brexit.
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> Another agreement reached before the Lancaster House summit will be on linking emissions trading, which the UK said would avoid businesses being hit by the EU’s carbon tax due to come in next year.
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> The deal also protects British steel imports from new EU tariffs through a bespoke arrangement, saving about £25m a year.
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> British holidaymakers will also be able to use European gates at airports, ending long holiday queues to use the gates for non-European citizens, and pet passports will be introduced to eliminate the need for animal health checks on each trip.
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> The UK will also now enter formal talks on a number of key topics, including a youth mobility deal, to grant visas for younger Britons and Europeans as well as re-entry to the Erasmus scheme.
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> There will be future talks, too, on access to the EU facial recognition data, a key ask of Starmer as a way of tackling cross-border crime and people-trafficking gangs.
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> But there will be no immediate entry for the UK to the EU’s €150bn defence fund to allow UK arms companies to bid for contracts – though the UK said the deal struck on Monday would pave the way for that to happen in the coming months.
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> The UK’s chief negotiator, Nick Thomas-Symonds, the cabinet office minister, said: “Today is a historic day, marking the opening of a new chapter in our relationship with the EU that delivers for working people across the UK.
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> “Since the start of these negotiations, we have worked for a deal to make the British people safer, more secure and more prosperous. Our new UK-EU Strategic Partnership achieves all three objectives. It delivers on jobs, bills and borders. “Today is a day of delivery. Britain is back on the world stage with a government in the service of working people.”
It better work on food, I’ve seen some fresh meat items jumping up by over £1 in a week each at our local. We’ve seen the steady increase on food shops for a while now, but nothing quite that drastic in the span of 7 days.
I know the “but historically our grocceries are cheaper” hammer comes out to bludgeon such thinking lately, but that ignores the context of what we pay in other bills VS europe: Almost double in some cases.
Will it fuck, just like Brexit was supposed to benefit us all and make the price of most daily uses cheaper?
I said the same in another sub, but it’s very impressive he was able to get this without a Youth Mobility scheme.
I know they’ve both agreed to ‘work towards one in future’, but up until now the EU were stating this was a prerequisite before any agreement could even begin.
Yea, it’ll make some uk exported food cheaper for people in the EU, it’ll make no difference to the price of food we import.
Unfortunately it is almost certain that the food importers and retailers will swallow all the saving in ‘these trying times’ and pass none of it along to customers.
A best it may slightly reduce the rate at which food gets more expensive, as the corporate dragons may be partially sated before their endless hunger begins to demand ever more again.
Will it make food cheaper or will it just increase profits for the big companies that produce our food and the supermarkets?
Are we back to using absolute figures again?
Recently trade agreements have been described as a proportion of gdp like this.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/25/uks-flagship-post-brexit-trade-deal-worth-even-less-than-previously-thought-obr-says
Cheaper for companies to import but you can forget its gonna be cheaper for us plebs to buy
It was always going to be an obvious win for any political party. You hurt the economy via Brexit giving a party the chance to grow the economy by reentering or striking this kind of deal.
In 4 years time, I’ll be amazed if the brexit voters even remember that this deal happened and if by then, starmer achieved economic growth and improved the main issues people have, it won’t matter.
Wow, every comment here pooing on it, wonder why? kek
This will just increase profits, prices will stay the same but maybe not continue to increase at the rate they were doing. Unless we vote with our wallets, it won’t get cheaper
Will it though? The food companies aren’t going to suddenly reduce, they will just bank the benefits as profits and bonus, and give it back to shareholders and CEO’s pay rises.
do we not already have zero tariffs and zero quotas on EU goods?
The only way for food to become cheaper is for inflation to lower.
Watching the conference and the fixation on fishing (and the language used by British journalists) is just depressing. Chris Mason, the supposedly neutral Political Editor of the BBC asking if the deal has “sold out” British fishermen. What an absolute joke.
Tomorrow’s headlines:
“Starmer’s EU deal will lead to obesity crisis as Brits gorge on cheap food”
“Shady Eurocrats to give dodgy Starmer 9 billion quid.”
“Does kier starmer punch kittens in the face?”
I eagerly await the reaction of The Telegraph, the Daily Mail, The Sun, and The Daily Express. And how this is a betrayal of Brexit, despite them not defining what this Brexit is for 9 years, and for the previous 40 years before it.
Why do I have a feeling like this deal is going to be bad for the UK one way or another.
Looks great on paper. Let’s just leave it awhile to see if it sours first or not.
Lot of comments on here want to see this as a betrayal or useless.
If supermarkets in the UK choose to not pass on their savings to customers then they’ll lose those customers to Aldo – who will absolutely revel in loudly cutting their costs for meat etc.
And re: fisheries access : it’s a multi year continuation of the existing deal, it’s nothing different to what is already in place.
If you don’t like the deal already in place, fine that’s your prerogative. But don’t act like this is new.
Jesus Christ there are an awful lot of people who have absolutely no fucking clue about the most basic economics, but still choose to comment on these kinds of matters.
The supermarket industry in this country is incredibly competitive. Lower food costs for them will result in lower prices for us, *all else staying the same*. This is because they’ll realise that lowering prices will attract more customers (if their rivals don’t), and increase total profits.
Great. Now how much would be added to the economy if billionaires paid their taxes?
Might make the government money but cheaper food will just be an added profit for the supermarkets I don’t expect anything to get Cheaper it never does
I don’t think anyone can deny that Starmer is a damn good negotiatior. This deal is nothing short of a positive and a win for us here in the UK. What he’s doing internally is very hit and miss, but dealing with other nations and bodies, he’s smashing it atm.
Just waiting for the negative headline to counter this one.
“Starmer makes the country fatter with cheap food!”
Or make it cheaper for stores to buy but sell at the exact same prices to customers more likely
Why does everything seem to revolve around fishing when it’s an economic rounding error?
Yeah, about that :/
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/website/economy/food-price-monitoring/
Anyone saying he isnt doing shit is blind and stupid