"Bananas may cast a shadow over world trade talks this year as EU negotiators argue with Latin American suppliers over how much they should pay to get their fruit into Europe. Bananas, worth billions of dollars on world markets and a key revenue-earner for many Latin American countries, are the world's second-largest fruit market after citrus and have a long history in Europe as a particularly sensitive area." [Aljazeera]

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