The European Council, representing the EU's 27 member countries, said it adopted the New Zealand pact, setting it up come into force "probably in early 2024" once Wellington ratifies it.
European Union and Mercosur negotiators met in Brazil on Tuesday and Wednesday to try to reconcile their different positions and complete a trade deal that has been in the works for two decades, three diplomatic sources told Reuters.
Kemi Badenoch is wasting everyone’s time and money with this ludicrous survey on post-Brexit trade deals
21/08/2023
The government’s gaslighting goes on in a desperate search for good news. / I must admit that I had no idea that the British government was wasting its money this way, but apparently it is now into its sixth survey of public attitudes to Free Trade Agreements (FTAs).
Since the Falkland Islands ceased to be a European Union (EU) Community overseas territory after the Brexit, Argentina seeks more support from the bloc in the negotiation claim with the United Kingdom on the South Atlantic British territory.
Belgian region of Wallonia vows to block another EU trade deal, in unsubtle Brexit foreshadowing
23/01/2020
EU-Mercosur deal in trouble, following Wallonia’s previous rejection of EU-Canada deal.
France and Ireland say they will not ratify a huge trade deal with South American nations unless Brazil does more to fight fires in the Amazon.
Brazil’s handling of forest fires set to top agenda of G7 countries at meeting in Biarritz this weekend
Far-right president Bolsonaro's response to fires criticised around the world.
Amazon fire: Ireland threatens to block EU trade deal with Latin American states if Brazil doesn’t ‘honour environmental commitments’
23/08/2019
'There is no way Ireland will vote for the EU-Mercosur agreement if Brazil does not honour its environmental commitments' Leo Varadkar said.
The European Union and Mercosur reached today a political agreement for an ambitious, balanced and comprehensive trade agreement.
The EU and South American economic bloc Mercosur have clinched a huge trade deal after 20 years of negotiations.
Boris Johnson’s claims about the prospects of rewriting the Brexit deal have been compared by the European parliament’s Brexit coordinator to the “false promises, pseudo-patriotism and foreigner-bashing” he is said to have used to win the EU referendum.
The South American customs pact Mercosur and the EU are “very close” to a far-reaching free trade accord, Brazil’s foreign minister said, a deal that would serve as a powerful counterpoint to growing tensions in global trade.