{"id":5832,"date":"2026-04-19T22:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/5832\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T22:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:43:11","slug":"germanys-merz-brazils-lula-stress-close-european-brazilian-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/5832\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s Merz, Brazil&#8217;s Lula Stress Close European-Brazilian Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HANOVER, April 19 (Reuters) &#8211; German Chancellor \u2060Friedrich \u2060Merz and Brazilian President \u2060Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Sunday \u200bcalled for closer ties between South America&#8217;s largest economy and the \u200cEuropean Union at the \u200copening of the Hanover industrial fair.<\/p>\n<p>Both welcomed the \u2060entry \u2060into force of the EU-Mercosur free trade agreement on May \u200b1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This shows that we are sticking to the multilateral order, that we want a rules-based economic system, and that we \u200bwant this cooperation with as few tariffs as possible \u2013 \u2060ideally none \u2060at all,&#8221; Merz said.<\/p>\n<p>Lula \u2060described \u200bBrazil, this year&#8217;s partner country at the world&#8217;s largest industrial \u200btrade fair in \u2060Hanover, as a reliable and important partner, including in the supply of raw materials.<\/p>\n<p>Although only about 30% of Brazil&#8217;s mineral potential has been mapped, the country already has \u2060the world&#8217;s largest reserves of niobium, the second-largest reserves of \u2060graphite and rare earths, and the third-largest reserves of nickel, Lula said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These raw materials must serve as a driver of economic and social development,&#8221; he added, calling for greater technology transfer and more processing capacity to be established in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Lula said he wanted to discuss the full range of economic cooperation \u2060with Merz, including artificial intelligence, critical minerals and data centers.<\/p>\n<p>German-Brazilian government consultations are due to take place on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Andreas Rinke in Hanover; Additional reporting \u200band writing by Isabel Teles in Sao \u200bPaulo; Editing by Bill Berkrot)<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Photos You Should See \u2013 April 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776638591_253_april-16-pyss-y01.jpg\" alt=\"Seagulls are pictured at the Baltic Sea beach in Timmendorfer Strand, Germany, on a sunny Sunday, April 12, 2026. (AP Photo\/Michael Probst)\" class=\"Image__PictureImage-sc-412cjc-1 bBgODV Image-sc-412cjc-2 SlideshowEmbed__Picture-fkpjfn-0 kQDDcT bUlaJL\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HANOVER, April 19 (Reuters) &#8211; German Chancellor \u2060Friedrich \u2060Merz and Brazilian President \u2060Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[699,387,982,151,722,5,5762,4416,4690,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-5832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-brazil","10":"tag-collections-world","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-international-trade","15":"tag-reuters","16":"tag-south-america","17":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}