The EU gives the final approval to the "first world law" that vetoes the import of products such as coffee, wood, soy or meat from areas of illegal logging or degraded. The ecological norm will affect several Mercosur countries with which Europe has been trying for two decades to seal the most ambitious free trade pact of the European bloc.

Brazil is annoyed that the EU closes the door to products from deforested areas of the Amazon just as a president who came to power with an ambitious and explicit environmental commitment that includes zero deforestation by 2030.