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European Commission

Two continents. One strong partnership 🇪🇺🤝🇦🇺

After almost a decade of work, we concluded the EU–Australia Free Trade Agreement. A win on both sides.

The agreement will:
🌍 boost EU exports to Australia, with growth of 33% expected over the next decade
🌍 save €1 billion in tariffs
🌍 create new opportunities for businesses and farmers
🌍 strengthen cooperation on critical raw materials, security and defence, and research

A relationship built for the long term.

More: https://link.europa.eu/ytWPdQ

@EUCommission More free trade agreements with repressive regimes. Yay.

Ⓥ Gregory Trolliet Ⓐ🔻 🇵🇸1d ago

@elricofmelnibone @EUCommission Yay, more big aggro industrie !
EU is so saving everybody.

Niko Trimmel 1d ago

@elricofmelnibone Australia is a repressive regime? @EUCommission

ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES 1d ago

@nitrml @elricofmelnibone @EUCommission

maybe Elric is a cane toad?

@benroyce @nitrml @elricofmelnibone @EUCommission they did go to war against the Emus...
(I don't know, from over here they don't look oppressive)

ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES 1d ago

@bovaz @nitrml @elricofmelnibone @EUCommission 😆

Conny Nasch 1d ago

@benroyce 😂 @nitrml @elricofmelnibone @EUCommission

fedorato 1d ago

@nitrml @elricofmelnibone @EUCommission Well, we’re basically a petro-state controlled by mining companies. There’s a strong illusion of being a real country - which is nice I guess.

ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES 1d ago

@elricofmelnibone @EUCommission

"repressive regimes"

"Australia"

wut?

@elricofmelnibone @EUCommission

Calling Australia, Rank 11 on the global democracy index, an "oppressive regime" makes me think you don't really know what the word "regime" means.

Michael Adeyeye Oshin 1d ago

Perhaps, @[email protected] meant the following:

For the existential threat to Indigenous people, most importantly Aboriginals?
For the lack of affirmative action in the country compared to some European countries?
For the lack of representation of the Torres Strait Islander and aboriginals, particularly melanated, on state-owned media outlets save NITV (Indigenous TV) and seldomly SBS. This deprivation is a true reflection of the representation of First Nations people in government.
etc

Yes, we are in the 11th position. Notwithstanding, the democracy is a government of NOT (all) the people, by NOT (all) the people and for NOT (all) the people:

@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]

@ABT554 Age verification. Social media crackdowns. Hate speech laws that are insanely broad in scope. IIRC there's also a weird ebike thing going on?

Not to mention the apalling treatment of many indigenous people.

Yeah, a true beacon of freedom.

Carighan Maconar 1d ago

@elricofmelnibone @EUCommission By what source or metric is Australia a "repressive regime"?

hot tran*sexual menace 1d ago

@elricofmelnibone @EUCommission ?

Fokeu🌸1d ago

@elricofmelnibone @EUCommission what kind of metric have you used to determine that?

Marek 🇦🇺🇩🇪1d ago

@EUCommission As an EU/Aus dual citizen, I'm excited for this! There's still a lot of untapped potential in the things we have in common.

European Commission 1d ago

Thanks for the support, @wansti! 🇪🇺 🤝 🇦🇺

Conny Nasch 1d ago

@wansti I agree 😁 my son lives in Sydney with his children. I must say I am very pleased with this move and shall have my first vacation there next year 😍

Project 1789 1d ago

@connynasch @wansti
Welcome!
You should all drop around for a BBQ.

LentenWax 1d ago

@EUCommission But this can't be right because our politicians said the "nasty EU" wouldn't let the UK trade with the Commonwealth.....so we had to have the utterly destructive suicide mission called Brexit....

...it couldn't be these politicians were lying for their own ends could it?

Is this still part of the trade deal?

"Australians may be able to live and work freely in the EU under a two-way mobility scheme put forward by Brussels. The same options would be open to EU citizens looking to move to Australia.

NewsWire understands the scheme was offered as a “sweetener” to get Canberra over the line on an elusive free-trade deal."

https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/labor-could-sell-out-farmers-for-eu-trade-deal-opposition-claims/news-story/d773830e1e2d439117ef4179e70f605b

ikuturso 🇪🇺1d ago

@Gina from what I'm reading it's probably not a part of it. There's just some limited stuff about recognizing qualifications in there and if they had agreed on such broad freedom of mobility it would likely be highlighted by the announcements.

The_Universality 1d ago

@EUCommission That is nice and all, but I still don't see Digital Omnibus repeled and still see the push for #ChatControl 1.0
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

@The_Universality @EUCommission

Anarchic Teapot ⚧️1d ago

@EUCommission Yeah, the farmers are delighted, and so are the ecologists. The planet needs people eating less beef and lamb/mutton, not more.

Andii אַנדִֽי 1d ago

@anarchic_teapot @EUCommission
Not to mention fuel and pollution ...

Kerplunk 1d ago

https://link.europa.eu/ytWPdQ
Shameful a 403
Why is this happening time and again.

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The EU-Australia trade agreement

Learn about the EU-Australia free trade agreement, how it benefits industry, farmers and producers and how it helps Europe secure critical raw materials

European Commission

@Kerplunk Nothing better than all your traffic with an official EU site being intercepted by a private American company.

Didn't one of those recently say that they can't guarantee not giving all your data to the government if asked?

Olaf Bohlen 1d ago

@EUCommission and all of that just to be more accepted at the Eurovision Song Contest...

mespique 1d ago

@olbohlen @EUCommission

Aussies playing the long game, counting them points.

@EUCommission 👍

@EUCommission Get Australia to join the EU. Call it Earth Union and we'll save a ton from not having to redo the logos and the merchandise.

Angela Scholder 1d ago

@EUCommission Any arbitration rules in the agreement where both the EU laws as wel as Australian laws have been totally ruled out?

Azarilhⓥ 1d ago

@EUCommission This is good news. Tho not perfect, as it's focused on the utility of people as objecfs rather than allowing people to move between the two states freely as humans, regardless of profession.

Davide Alimonti 1d ago

Great! Let's do China now.
EC is not afraid to make Trump angry, is it??

Alpaca Male 1d ago

@EUCommission Yeah, one of our biggest trade partners went completely bonkers. You know them, so I don't think I need to name them. We'd be glad to work together with you guys. I'm happy we found some common ground and a mutually beneficial agreement.

Séverin Lemaignan 1d ago

@EUCommission what does the 'research' side of the agreement entail? Will Australia join the Horizon Europe research framework?

European Commission 12h ago

Hello @severin!
The Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the EU at this point will make it easier for researchers to move between the two continents. For the future, the parties have also agreed to launch formal negotiations for the association of Australia to Horizon Europe.
You can learn more here: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_645

vlakicas 1d ago

@EUCommission Ok. I know. Eurosong.

@EUCommission Go go EU! 🇪🇺⭐

Duncan Bayne 3h ago

@EUCommission Speaking as an Australian, I'm delighted! As a "middle power" the more we move away from alignment with the US, and towards alignment with the EU, the better.