{"id":274886,"date":"2026-01-08T22:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/274886\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T22:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:50:13","slug":"france-joins-ireland-in-voting-against-controversial-mercosur-trade-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/274886\/","title":{"rendered":"France joins Ireland in voting against controversial Mercosur trade deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>latest\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The deal is still likely to pass when a vote takes place on Friday at EU level\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tractors are parked in front of the Arc de Triomphe during as part of a nationwide day of protests to push the French government to block the Mercosur trade deal. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0cbb7ab1-dc64-4aa8-bca2-f0827054605b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Tractors are parked in front of the Arc de Triomphe during as part of a nationwide day of protests to push the French government to block the Mercosur trade deal. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p>Tabitha Monahan, Senan Moloney, C\u00f3nal Thomas and Ciaran Moran<\/p>\n<p>Today at 10:50<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">France has announced it will join Ireland and vote against the controversial Mercosur trade deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">French President Emmanuel Macron said France would oppose the deal due to a unanimous political rejection of the agreement in his country despite &#8220;significant concessions&#8221; for farmers in the European Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"latest\u00a0|\u00a0 The deal is still likely to pass when a vote takes place on Friday at EU level&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,61225,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-274886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-ciaran-moran","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}