Brasilien hat damit gedroht, aus dem europäisch-südamerikanischen Mercosur-Freihandelsabkommen auszutreten, falls es diesen Monat nicht unterzeichnet wird. Italien und Frankreich haben weiterhin Vorbehalte und warnen vor einem zeitnahen Abschluss.
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/brasilien-droht-mit-ausstieg-aus-mercosur-abkommen-frankreich-und-italien-stellen-sich-gegen-raschen-100.html
Von Stabile_Feldmaus
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>Brazilian President Lula da Silva stated at a cabinet meeting in Brasilia that many concessions had been made to the EU. If the other side did not sign now, tougher measures would be taken.
Within the EU, France and Italy in particular are resisting a quick conclusion; both countries are demanding better protection for their agricultural economies. French President Macron warned against approval against his country’s will. This would be met with strong opposition. Germany, other states, and the EU Commission, on the other hand, are pushing for the agreement to be signed. This is currently scheduled for the end of this week.
A decision could be made at tomorrow’s EU summit in Brussels. In addition to the EU and Brazil, the free trade agreement also includes Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay. The EU Commission expects this to increase exports to the Mercosur countries by nearly 40 percent.
Translated with deepl.com
French farmers are throwing Brazil and Argentina into Chinese arms.. wasting a unique opportunity for European companies and more strategically, a long overdue need to increase ties with a culturally close region to us. We’re living difficult times and making it more difficult for nothing, to end up paying more taxes to subsidize these farmers… jeez.. what a self defeating stupidity.
For the love of whoever the hell you worship, this shit has been going on for TWENTY FIVE BLOODY YEARS!!!!!
It is a deal where Europe offer to buy SA commodities, so they will in turn buy our highly value-added industrial goods. Its as good of a trade deal as it is ever going to get. ESPECIALLY NOW when revitalization of European heavy industry is more important than ever.
You cant „diversify“ from China or US or whatever if you just refuse to trade with anyone.
Understandable.
Let’s be honest, if after 25 years we can’t manage to finalise this important (now more than ever) trade agreement, we can only come to the conclusion that Europe is a shitshow that can’t be taken seriously.
Macron and others loudly proclaim that they want to finally make Europe more independent from the US and China, only to then sabotage everything we need to do to achieve this.
I just hope Macron and France finally shut up about their oh-so-important “European independence” when the agreement falls apart, because then no one could take them seriously anymore.
Maybe we just focus on agriculture then and leave all the other economic stuff to the big players.
After 25 years of negotiation, about fucking time.
We all know what is going to happen. The deal is going to be delayed. Years in the future, France will come up with new absurd demands and the deal will be delayed again.
With the current demands this trade deal is basically LATAM open its markets to services and industrial goods from Europe because competition is good, but we don’t open our markets to your agri goods because this type of competition is bad.
Fuck off. Better let this deal die and pivot to Asia already. Lula is right.
Quick reminder that Brazil is part of BRICS and refused to support Ukraine. If they want to walk then they can walk. Good riddance.
I don’t want to hear another word from France or Italy about European (or French/Italian) industry, or how US and Chinese companies are outpacing them, or spend a single Euro to support unholy the merger that is Stellantis, when they keep pulling shit like this.
Funny how people doesn’t care anymore about food safety when there is a opportunity to sell irrelevant cars somewhere..
We talk about sovereignty but we are ready to submits a vital and strategical sector (food production and supply, fcs!), at the dawn of a potential war, to international supplies oversea? Yeah, good calculation, genius.
How could farmers have such a strong lobby I never got this really. It employs a very low amount of people and only constitutes a negligible percentage of overall GDP.
If one side is so desperate to put deadlines on it the maybe the other side has damn good reason to have reservations. Deals under artificial time-pressure are usually a bad idea.
It’s a simple question here : when we sign a deal with Brazil, does it include a part on sustainable solutions on Amazon forrest ?