President Emmanuel Macron insisted on Wednesday in Brazil that the trade agreement negotiated between the European Union and Mercosur was a
“very bad agreement”
and called for building
“a new one”
.
The EU-Mercosur agreement
“as it is negotiated today is a very bad agreement, for you and for us
,” he said during an Economic Forum in São Paulo (south-east).
“Let’s build a new agreement (..) which is responsible from a development, climate and biodiversity point of view
,” he added.