{"id":463250,"date":"2026-05-01T13:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/463250\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:14:16","slug":"eu-mercosur-deal-kicks-in-today-here-are-the-changes-and-what-does-it-all-mean-for-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/463250\/","title":{"rendered":"EU-Mercosur deal kicks in today: here are the changes \u2013 and what does it all mean for Ireland?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"French farmers protest last January against the Mercosur agreement. Photo: Reuters\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d1593667-0c5d-4fc6-8584-c98914eabf7d.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)\">French farmers protest last January against the Mercosur agreement. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p>Sofia Sanchez Manzanaro, Alice Bergoend and Margaret Donnelly<\/p>\n<p>EuractivToday at 06:30<\/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)\">After 25 years of negotiations, the EU-Mercosur agreement will come into force from today, albeit provisionally.<\/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)\">The landmark trade deal between the EU and Mercosur countries \u2013 Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay \u2013 was reached in December 2024. EU countries endorsed it a year later, allowing the agreement to be signed. All four Mercosur countries have also approved it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French farmers protest last January against the Mercosur agreement. Photo: Reuters Sofia Sanchez Manzanaro, Alice Bergoend and Margaret&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,4893,5766,13,14,6,31231,11,12,15,16,169574,5,383,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-463250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-european-commission","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ifa","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-margaret-donnelly","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-spain","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories","25":"tag-world","26":"tag-world-news","27":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116499504667162578","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463250","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=463250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}