{"id":682965,"date":"2026-01-08T20:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/682965\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:27:22","slug":"france-will-vote-against-the-eu-mercosur-deal-macron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/682965\/","title":{"rendered":"France will vote against the EU-Mercosur deal: Macron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will vote against the European Union&#8217;s trade deal with the South American bloc Mercosur, a day before member states were scheduled to cast ballots on final approval.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">&#8220;France will vote against signing the agreement,&#8221; he said on Thursday on X, calling it a deal &#8220;from another era&#8221; after French farmers earlier in the day rolled into Paris on their tractors to protest against it.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">More than 25 years in the making, the accord would create one of the world&#8217;s biggest free-trade areas and help the 27-nation European Union export more vehicles, machinery, wines and spirits to Latin America.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">But French farmers fear being undercut by a flow of cheaper goods from agricultural giant Brazil and its neighbours.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Plans to seal the deal at a gathering in Brazil last month ran into a late roadblock as heavyweights Italy and France demanded a postponement over concerns for the farming sector.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">The European Union on Tuesday offered a carrot to farmers, promising to unlock funds for the sector as it seeks to get the accord over the line.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Macron said the European Commission should be credited for &#8220;undeniable progress&#8221; after France&#8217;s demands for what he called &#8220;a fairer agreement to protect our farmers&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will vote against the European Union&#8217;s trade deal with the South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,1699],"class_list":{"0":"post-682965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-european-union"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115861366084221067","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682965","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=682965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}