The newly-concluded free trade agreement with the Mercosur countries represents the EU’s toughest challenge yet in terms of selling the benefits of trade liberalism to a sceptical domestic audience.
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Blog: Mercosur agreement – the victory of expediency over thoroughness
The Mercosur agreement is not the most interesting or ambitious trade deal the EU has ever signed. It reflects our times and the EU’s wish to show the world and the United States it is defending its interests, comments Iana Dreyer.
Week ahead in EU trade: G20 fallout, parliament leadership race, EU Australia
It hasn’t been much of a weekend for European leaders. Nor for journalists. We’ve had: a handshake deal on the EU Mercosur free trade negotiations on Friday night with few details on its exact content, the signing of the EU Vietnam free trade agreement in Hanoi on Sunday (30 June), …
Flash: EU and Mercosur seal historic trade agreement
Details of the agreement are yet to be published, but there is white smoke: the EU and Mercosur agreed on a historic trade agreement – the largest region to region agreement ever concluded. The two regional blocs had been seeking a trade agreement for over twenty years. See the official …
Week in Brussels: Finnish presidency priorities, INTA committee contours, investment facilitation
This week has mainly been about the EU-Vietnam trade agreement and the final stretches over the 20-year-old EU Mercosur trade negotiations.
EU and Mercosur dare hope for trade deal breakthrough in coming days
The European Union appears determined to make a major point about trade policy at the G20 summit in Osaka, which opened today (27 June) in Japan. Negotiations to conclude a trade pact with the South American bloc Mercosur are continuing after marathon meetings with ministers today. The signs are a …
EU-Mercosur endgame: The quest for beefed-up final offers
After 20 years of negotiations, the stars really do seem to be aligning for the EU and Mercosur to conclude a free trade agreement in the coming days.
UPDATE – Week Ahead in EU trade: Vietnam and Mercosur crunch week, DSB
This article was updated on 24 June at 17.35 CET. New information includes detailed dates for the EU Vietnam agreements and an update/erratum on the Spanish olives dispute settlement case. This week we might see breakthroughs in the Vietnam and Mercosur trade agreements. We will certainly see more EU US …
Week in Brussels: Vietnam, banana pesticides, ISDS awards and state aid
This week we saw developments on the EU China market economy case, Mercosur, the UK GSP scheme, fishing and Korea. What else happened?
In brief: EU aims to conclude Mercosur talks by end of June in Japan
Negotiators are giving it a try: to conclude the EU-Mercosur trade negotiations at the G20 summit in Osaka in 10 days’ time (28 and 29 June).
