Stop or still?
Discussions around the free trade agreement between the European Union (EU) and Mercosur — initiated since 1999 — continue their obstacle course but are today stumbling over the final hurdle.
The “deal” with this market which brings together Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay was to be announced at the beginning of December on the sidelines of COP 28 but the coming to power of the populist Javier Milei in Argentina delayed the process.
A new deadline was finally set for the end of February… in the middle of the Agricultural Show in France.
The rest after this ad
Suffice to say that with the unprecedented mobilization of farmers in France, but also in the Netherlands, Belgium and even Germany, this hypothesis is in trouble.
Especially since France is working to denounce, in the wake of farmers, unfair competition from foreign products that do not respect our production standards.
Subscribe
Already subscribed?
To log in