{"id":714192,"date":"2026-01-23T00:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T00:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/714192\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T00:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T00:47:13","slug":"clear-interest-that-mercosur-trade-deal-benefits-apply-quickly-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/714192\/","title":{"rendered":"Clear interest that Mercosur trade deal benefits apply quickly -Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">BRUSSELS, Jan 23 (Reuters) &#8211; European Union leaders want the trade deal \u200bsigned with Mercosur countries \u200cto apply provisionally despite a European Parliament \u200cdecision to ask the EU&#8217;s top court if it is in line with EU treaties, European Commission \u2060head Ursula von \u200cder Leyen said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">&#8220;Where Mercosur is concerned&#8230; the question of \u200dprovisional application was raised by several leaders tonight &#8230; and there is a clear \u200binterest that we ensure that \u200cthe benefits of this important agreement apply as soon as possible,&#8221; von der Leyen told a news conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">&#8220;We have not taken a \u2060decision yet. A decision \u200bwould only be \u200bneeded at a stage when one country of Mercosur, or \u200dmore countries \u2060of Mercosur have completed their procedures. So we will be \u2060ready when they are ready,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting \u200cby Jan Strupczewski, Andrew Gray \u200cand Bart Meijer)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS, Jan 23 (Reuters) &#8211; European Union leaders want the trade deal \u200bsigned with Mercosur countries \u200cto apply&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,2557,1699,20730,197748,213724,1220],"class_list":["post-714192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-commission","tag-european-union","tag-european-parliament","tag-mercosur-countries","tag-provisional-application","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115941661068023712","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714192","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=714192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}