After having said no to the trade agreement with Mercosur, France could now be seduced.
By laying down his conditions for a lifting of the veto during a meeting of the trade policy monitoring committee, which was held by videoconference on Thursday, the French Minister of Foreign Trade, Franck Riester, reopened a subject that the NGOs thought closed.
A particularly heated debate therefore resumes.
It will feed the work already started in Brussels.
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The European Commission does not intend to renegotiate the trade agreement, bitterly fought for twenty years and presented as the best possible.
But she has been working since mid-December on the drafting of one - or more - annexes.
With the objective of including binding commitments for the Mercosur countries (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay), sufficient to create the political conditions for ratification.
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At the heart of this work, there is first and foremost the issue of the environment.
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