{"id":682961,"date":"2026-01-08T20:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/682961\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:25:11","slug":"france-to-oppose-eu-mercosur-trade-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/682961\/","title":{"rendered":"France to oppose EU-Mercosur trade deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" alt=\"France to oppose EU-Mercosur trade deal \" title=\"France to oppose EU-Mercosur trade deal \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767898304.webp.webp\" data-rjs=\"2\"\/><\/p>\n<p> Adnan Farzat\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><strong>France is set to block the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/lula-eu-mercosur-deal-will-go-ahead-despite-french-opposition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU-Mercosur trade deal<\/a> during a crucial vote in Brussels on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The signing of the agreement is not the end of the story. I will continue to fight for the full and concrete implementation of the commitments obtained from the European Commission and to protect our farmers,&#8221; Macron\u00a0wrote. &#8220;The economic benefits of the EU-Mercosur agreement will be limited for French and European growth,&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/france-vote-eu-mercosur-trade-deal-farmer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">foreign media.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes hours before a key vote by member countries on the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside Poland, France has been the fiercest opponent of the deal \u2014 but it lacks the numbers to stall it on Friday, especially if\u00a0Italy backs it.<\/p>\n<p>If the deal is approved, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will fly to Paraguay to sign the accord as next week. The Mercosur bloc\u2019s other members are Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adnan Farzat\/NurPhoto via Getty Images France is set to block the EU-Mercosur trade deal during a crucial vote&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[11330,2000,206923,299,36,13128],"class_list":{"0":"post-682961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-brussels","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-eu-mercosur-agreement","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-trade-deal"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115861358098704934","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682961","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=682961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}