EU-Mercosur trade deal hangs in balance
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Past efforts to establish trade zones across South America have failed. Mercosur members have shown a lack of commitment to free trade. The recently formed Pacific Alliance shows early promise.
Foreign Ministers of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur)—namely Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay—gathered Friday in Buenos Aires at the San Martín Palace to advance regional ...
The two blocs have been in talks for years over how to liberalize their trade. But with Brussels pushing for stronger assurances on climate change and deforestation, a deal seems elusive. As trade ...
The Mercosur’s commitment also includes the respect of the rules on deforestation which are currently being adopted at the EU level. In the agricultural sector, not much has changed since 2019. The ...
Presidential summit meetings of the Mercosur alliance were usually sedate comfortable affairs until Uruguay decided to “open up to the world” under its pro-business President Luis Lacalle Pou. Hard ...
BUENOS AIRES/BRASILIA (Reuters) -South America's Mercosur trade bloc and a group of four small European nations on Wednesday wrapped up talks on a sweeping free-trade agreement a decade in the ...
While Germany and Spain strongly endorse the Mercosur deal, France is trying to rally a blocking minority to halt the agreement. It is hopeful that Italy, Austria, Poland and the Netherlands will ...
On June 28, 1999, the European Union and Mercosur—the South American trade bloc consisting of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay—began negotiating the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement. Twenty ...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm on Wednesday unveiled detailed proposals to protect farmers from being undercut by imports from South America as it seeks to build support for its ...
IT WAS such a good idea. In 1991 Brazil and Argentina set aside decades of rivalry and, together with smaller Uruguay and Paraguay, founded Mercosur as a would-be common market. The project went ...
Some MEPs want the top EU court to review the Latin American trade deal — a process that could take 18-24 months.
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