cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/45605798
Australians love hopping over to Europe [and Europeans over to Australia] for a holiday, but actually moving there isn’t so easy, at least for now.
That could soon change, with the European Union offering to make it easier for Australians to live and work across the bloc as part of a long-awaited trade deal with Canberra, sources familiar with the proposal say.
The plan would make it simpler for Australians to take up work in EU member states without needing to secure employment beforehand, with the same rules applying to Europeans heading to Australia.
Four-year limits have reportedly been floated, along with potential settlement pathways, one European source said.
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The Albanese Government is weighing the offer, with Australian officials noting it could help fill labour shortages in sectors with comparable training standards, such as construction.
NewsWire reports the initiative was presented as a “sweetener” to bring Canberra over the line on a free-trade agreement.
A majority of EU nations last week backed a trade deal with a five-member bloc in South America, ending 25 years of talks and fuelling optimism that an agreement with Australia could be next.
European insiders said a pact with Canberra now ranks as Brussels’ “top priority,” with one adding it was “the next cab off the rank.”
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What an absurd and snobbish perspective. As if you personally had anything to do with these products’ invention.
Regardless, I make an active judgement call to avoid products that go by the ‘real’ name whenever Australia is forced to these agreements. I never used to care where my Champagne came from, now if the label says ‘Champagne’, then I know it’s a Champagne I do not want.
Why would that be snobbish? The place where the wine was grown/made has a massive influence on the taste, so it really does matter. It’s also cultural appropriation to just take a super old tradition like that and give it a totally different name.
No. It’s called language. All food/drinks originate from one place or another; there’s no reason to call the product something different just because it is made elsewhere. The EU are the ones demanding other countries “give it a totally different name” here, otherwise misleading and anti-consumer words like ‘bubbly’ (champagne), ‘apera’ (sherry), ‘dolce rosso’ (lambrusco), ‘tawny’ (port) etc wouldn’t exist.
It doesn’t matter anyway. Australia ‘agreed’ to change the above names years ago. Fortunately, despite the change in labelling, it hasn’t caught on. Law can’t dictate human language and people still call the products by their actual names.
Tell that to the French people literally living in the Champagne region. How absurd they must be.
Dude, then dont redicule our ways of doing things Especially since you don’t even care, and probably won’t be visiting Europe soon anyway, or are you?
Then good for you.
Australia isn’t forced into anything and neither are you. It’s just a Trade agreement which usually is beneficial to most. I do think it’s maybe time for a walkabout.
The only way the EU agrees with trade agreements (e.g. lowering/removing tariffs) is if the other countries agree with their GI demands.
I support the trade agreement in spite of the GI nonsense; I am still permitted to voice my displeasure about certain parts of it.
You must be on the edge all the time, caring about superficial things like that