{"id":641302,"date":"2025-12-19T01:20:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/641302\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:20:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:20:27","slug":"eu-delays-mercosur-signing-as-25-year-curse-drags-on-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/641302\/","title":{"rendered":"EU delays Mercosur signing as 25-year curse drags on \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long-standing opposition from France, Poland and Italy, where farming constituencies are influential, has turned the deal into a test of Brussels\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/europe-tries-to-step-out-of-americas-shadow-and-hits-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ability to rally allies abroad<\/a> while holding together a deeply divided bloc.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMercosur plays a central role in our trade agreements,\u201d said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on her way into the leaders summit on Thursday morning, adding it was \u201cof enormous importance we get the green light.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet Meloni derailed the carefully laid plan. <\/p>\n<p>Brazil&#8217;s President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva said the Italian leader promised him on a call Thursday that she would support the deal as soon as she secured the backing of Italy&#8217;s farmers. Despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.folha.uol.com.br\/mercado\/2025\/12\/lula-diz-que-nao-fara-mais-acordo-com-a-ue-se-europeus-adiarem-votacao.shtml?utm_source=whatsapp&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=compwa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heaping pressure<\/a> on Europeans in recent days, Lula ended up accepting the delay, the diplomats said.<\/p>\n<p>Meloni\u2019s pushback meant there was not enough backing from EU countries for von der Leyen to fly to Brazil this weekend to sign the deal as planned \u2014 despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-went-to-unprecedented-length-to-win-over-mercosur-skeptics-maros-sefcovic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">huge political capital<\/a> invested on each side in trying to finalize it by the end before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Even if Rome and Paris come around, the agreement\u2019s troubles are far from over: The deal must still pass through the European Parliament, where opposition is mounting across the political spectrum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long-standing opposition from France, Poland and Italy, where farming constituencies are influential, has turned the deal into a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[3971,10105,6850,2106,1396,2000,299,5187,6644,36,475,806,2199,35853,2441,22708,22709,5111,770,10780,2443,1201,1220,22710],"class_list":{"0":"post-641302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-agriculture","9":"tag-argentina","10":"tag-beef","11":"tag-brazil","12":"tag-dumping-duties","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-farmers","17":"tag-france","18":"tag-imports","19":"tag-industry","20":"tag-italy","21":"tag-luiz-inacio-lula-da-silva","22":"tag-markets","23":"tag-mercosur","24":"tag-paraguay","25":"tag-parliament","26":"tag-poland","27":"tag-poultry","28":"tag-regulation","29":"tag-trade","30":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","31":"tag-uruguay"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115743609652783278","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}