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On both sides, we are looking forward to the reunion.
Emmanuel Macron began a state visit to Brazil on Tuesday evening, at the invitation of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
The opportunity to celebrate the renewed solidity of the Franco-Brazilian relationship,
“after a four-year eclipse and a virtual freeze in political relations”
during the mandate of the populist Jair Bolsonaro, we recall at the Élysée.
But the onslaught of kindnesses does not prevent the presence of an elephant in the middle of the room: the free trade treaty being negotiated between the European Union and the Mercosur countries, including Brazil and Argentina.
An agreement which divides Europeans: several states including Germany and Spain support it, but France refuses it as is, demanding environmental clauses.
As the European elections approach, and while Mercosur is one of the threats pointed out by French farmers, who fear competition from Brazilian breeders...
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