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...The Mercosur nations have rejected this as protectionism from European nations scared of competition from South American beef and wine exports....
...The comments frustrated EU and Mercosur diplomats....
...The next few days, which coincide with the end of Brazil’s tenure in the rotating Mercosur presidency, will be vital to finalising the agreement, which would be the first between the Mercosur bloc and one...
...The winning candidate, radical libertarian Javier Milei, has previously pledged to withdraw the country from Mercosur....
...Mercosur, which includes Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, is a valuable prize for EU exporters....
...On the Mercosur trade deal, Mamer said talks would continue despite France’s renewed push against it, but added that an agreement was not imminent....
...Mercosur, which consists of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, is still discussing its own counterproposal....
...French President Emmanuel Macron and Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar have also said they want to halt negotiations over the bloc’s free trade agreement with the South American Mercosur bloc because of the protests...
...Brussels is trying to get it done by December 6, when Brazil hands over the presidency of Mercosur to Paraguay. Milei will be sworn in on December 10. Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets please!...
...Leaving Mercosur isn’t Milei’s craziest idea. The bloc has not been a successful engine of liberalisation and growth....
...Lula has frequently attacked the EU demands, calling them a “threat” to the Mercosur countries....
...Brazil, along with the other three South American countries that make up the Mercosur grouping, is ready to sign a trade agreement with the EU despite its own resentment over the deforestation regulation...
...Varadkar and Macron are among leaders who have called for a halt to a trade treaty with Latin American countries in the Mercosur bloc, which includes Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay....
...Brussels has also irked the Mercosur quartet by sending a letter that required the group to make binding commitments to protect the rainforest and labour rights....
...Whether finally to sign off on a trade deal with South America’s Mercosur bloc....
...The EU will continue to try to drag the EU-Mercosur trade deal over the ratification line, which probably won’t happen but it might....
...Mercosur deal goes south: EU trade chief Valdis Dombrovskis has cancelled a trip to Brazil amid uncertainty over the bloc’s trade deal with Mercosur....
...Attal also repeated Macron’s earlier opposition to the Mercosur trade agreement being negotiated between the EU and countries in South America, which farmers say would lead to unfair competition because...
...Another area to watch is trade, where a long-planned deal with the South American bloc Mercosur, already in trouble, may be paralysed by a more rightwing EU legislature....
...A long-vaunted trade pact with Mercosur countries is in the deep freeze....
...The original shorthand for EU-Mercosur was a cars-for-beef deal....
...The EU-Mercosur deal’s attention to deforestation is just one of many examples....
...The latest talks to get this treatment are between the EU and Mercosur, whose chief negotiators meet this week in Brasília....
...Emmanuel Macron, never slow to seize a tactical opportunity, in January leapt on the European farmers’ protests to say that talks to ratify the EU-Mercosur trade deal should be stopped....
...The litmus test now is simple: Europe must ratify its trade deal with the South American Mercosur bloc....
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