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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Daniel Hurst

‘Great migrant nation’: bid to protect Australian prosecco and feta from EU bans

Australian farmers ‘feel very attached’ to products such as feta cheese, Don Farrell has told the EU as he bids to strike afree trade deal.
Australian farmers ‘feel very attached’ to products such as feta cheese, Don Farrell has told the EU as he bids to strike a free trade deal. Photograph: David Mariuz/AAP

The trade minister, Don Farrell, has asked his European counterparts to recognise Australia as a “great migrant nation” and not force its producers to stop using terms like prosecco and feta.

In an interview from Berlin, Farrell said he was hopeful of clinching a free trade agreement with the European Union early in the new year because he had received an “extremely positive response in all of the countries we visited”.

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