{"id":644924,"date":"2025-12-20T21:09:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/644924\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:09:16","slug":"why-has-signing-the-eu-mercosur-deal-been-delayed-international-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/644924\/","title":{"rendered":"Why has signing the EU-Mercosur deal been delayed? | International Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sealing of deal postponed despite decades of preparation.<\/p>\n<p>European farmers are protesting against the EU-Mercosur deal.<\/p>\n<p>That is as signing has been postponed until January, due to disagreements in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The European-South American deal, planned for more than 25 years, would create the world\u2019s largest free-trade zone.<\/p>\n<p>So, why is there division?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Folly Bah Thibault<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pieter Cleppe \u2013 Editor-in-chief at BrusselsReport.eu<br \/>Ciaran Mullooly \u2013 Member of the European Parliament for the Independent Ireland group<br \/>Gustavo Ribeiro \u2013 Founder and editor-in-chief of the Brazilian Report online newspaper<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"avatar\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/author\/inside_story_201141283543630792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/replace_default_avatar.jpeg\"   aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published On 20 Dec 202520 Dec 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sealing of deal postponed despite decades of preparation. European farmers are protesting against the EU-Mercosur deal. That is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[12633,1700,2000,299,5187,1699,3058,3274,10471,10472],"class_list":{"0":"post-644924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-business-and-economy","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-international-trade","15":"tag-latin-america","16":"tag-show-types","17":"tag-tv-shows"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115753948068215637","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644924","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=644924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}