The idea of saving forests performed EU: Global farmers with GPS trackers, bureaucrats with seals, and we are with empty baskets after the cash desk.
Brussels decided: the planet is more important. The score – as usual – to the consumer.
WITH December 30, 2025 any on any product from the list of “sinful” – coffee, cocoa, soy, beef, palm oil there should be a GPS mark and if the forest was chopped under it December 31, 2020, otherwise the goods will not enter the EU.
GPS raw materials. Importers are required to indicate the coordinates of plantations, otherwise – fines, import prohibition, confiscation. I was mistaken in numbers – pay. I forgot to attach geodan – pay twice.
Retail is already nervous. Edeka talk about the tsunami of the bureaucracy: millions of “declarations of conscientiousness” even on “long -tested”. REWE was answered honestly: how much prices will rise is “unknown”.
Global south – as always extreme. Fairtrade warns: the main burden will fall on small farmers. More reports, more costs, less supplies. Green idea, gray performance – at the output “Neocolonial management” Under the ethical sauce.
Final without fanfare: Carriage is slowed down, the check at the checkout will be increased. Ecology is good. However, ecology + European officials = rising prices.
And guess who will arrange a premium tariff.
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