comment: Russia thought they can blackmail the EU with Gas and Oil. They lost all leverage now.
  What makes Malaysia think they can blackmail the EU?
  Palm oil in theory is the cleanest vegetable oil with the highest yield of oil compared to the agricultural area used. Problem is that the monoculture of palm trees sucks all nutrition out of the ground and needs constantly fertiliser to be added. Huge areas of rainforest have been converted into palm plantations. Jungle animals cannot survive in the plantations. 
  You cannot convert them back, if you have ever seen a given up palm plantation, it looks like a moon landscape in the midst of the most fertile land.
  My opinion is, palm plantations are not necessarily bad, but converting rainforest into palm plantations is super bad. Indonesia and Malaysia have given the palm oil industry a bad name with their culture of corruption, bending the law for favourism and tolerating illegal plantations. No one will ever be able to trust a certificate for ecological palm plantations if it comes out of Indonesia or Malaysia. But of course it is everyone else's fault, the standard political reaction in this part of the globe.