00:04hello and welcome to the cube your news fact-checking show did the EU Mercosur
00:08agreement just mean that 63 kilograms of worm-infested raw green Brazilian coffee
00:14was brought into Europe that's the claim being spread on social media by French
00:18politician Florian Philippot and Polish MEP Eva Zakajowska-Henrik according to
00:23Philippot the EU Mercosur agreement is poisoning European plates meanwhile
00:28Zakajowska-Henrik claimed the infested shipment is a direct consequence of the
00:33agreement between the EU and South American countries but what actually
00:37happened Poland's agricultural and food quality inspection authority posted on
00:42Facebook that inspectors in the city of Poznan blocked two patches of raw green
00:46coffee imported from Brazil they said that the shipment was stopped due to
00:51damaged beans and the presence of life pests without mentioning Mercosur but
00:55although politicians linked the coffee to the EU Mercosur agreement which came
00:59into effect recently Brazil and Poland were already long-standing coffee trading
01:03partners public UN trade data shows Brazil exported more than 15 million
01:09kilograms of green coffee to Poland in 2024 alone long before Mercosur provisional
01:14agreement began and raw green coffee beans already entered the EU tariff free
01:18more than a decade before the Mercosur provisional application began Poland's food
01:23quality inspection authority confirmed to us that it blocked 95 shipments of
01:28imported food products in 2025 alone meaning these kinds of interceptions are
01:33not unusual critics of the Mercosur agreement which does increase
01:37agricultural imports between the EU and Mercosur countries argue that it could
01:42put pressure on European farmers and inspection systems but there is no evidence
01:47that this specific shipment of raw green coffee was a product of the deal
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