{"id":684953,"date":"2026-01-09T17:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684953\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T17:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:43:10","slug":"eu-nations-back-landmark-mercosur-trade-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684953\/","title":{"rendered":"EU nations back landmark Mercosur trade deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU provisionally approved a trade deal with the South American Mercosur bloc to create the world\u2019s largest free trade zone after 25 years of negotiations marked by deep divisions within the EU\u2019s member states.<\/p>\n<p>A \u201ccars for cows\u201d agreement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/fcaf1ab6-69c8-4aa9-a104-c4f918f7747d\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">favoring EU industrial goods and LatAm farm products<\/a>, Mercosur\u2019s champions argued the deal secures EU access to Brazil and Argentina\u2019s critical minerals, <a href=\"https:\/\/big-europe.eu\/publications\/2025-12-22-a-geopolitical-strategy-with-domestic-political-costs-the-eu-mercosur-agreement#about-the-author\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reducing dependence on China<\/a> and proving Europe can overcome disagreements to act decisively.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement, set to be signed next week, overcomes intense opposition from European farmers, and demonstrates that Europe\u2019s efforts to extend economic collaboration stand in stark contrast to the US\u2019 approach of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/09\/business\/economy\/european-union-mercosur-trade.html\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">coercion over cooperation<\/a>,\u201c, The New York Times wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The EU provisionally approved a trade deal with the South American Mercosur bloc to create the world\u2019s largest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187],"class_list":{"0":"post-684953","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115866383428448860","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684953","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=684953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}