{"id":18756,"date":"2018-10-17T01:22:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T01:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18756"},"modified":"2018-10-17T01:22:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T01:22:16","slug":"fears-brexit-could-lead-to-food-shortages-in-eu-and-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18756","title":{"rendered":"Fears Brexit could lead to food shortages in EU and UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"72.7099236641\">\n<p>The leaders of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/european-union.html\">European Union<\/a> are meeting on Wednesday as a deal over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/events\/brexit.html\">Brexit<\/a> looks to be as far away as ever.<\/p>\n<p>The effects of a no-deal Brexit will be felt in the Dutch port of Rotterdam, crucial for the movement of goods into the UK, perhaps more than anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands government is beginning to plan for a worst-case scenario &#8211; no deal at all &#8211; as are other European capitals.<\/p>\n<p>Brexit supporters have dismissed worries about food shortages as scaremongering, but with Rotterdam alone sending half of the UK&#8217;s summer intake of tomatoes, if no deal is reached, some amount of disruption seems inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Laurence Lee reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leaders of the European Union are meeting on Wednesday as a deal over Brexit looks to be as far away as ever. The effects of a no-deal Brexit will be felt in the Dutch port of Rotterdam, crucial for the movement of goods into the UK, perhaps more than anywhere else. The Netherlands government&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}