{"id":804354,"date":"2026-03-04T22:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/804354\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T22:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:40:18","slug":"brazil-congress-approves-eu-mercosur-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/804354\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil Congress approves EU-Mercosur deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">BRASILIA\/SAO PAULO, March 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Brazilian lawmakers have finalized their \u200capproval of a free \u200ctrade agreement between the South American \u200beconomic bloc Mercosur and the European Union, following a favorable Senate vote on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The collective approval \u200cby the \u2060legislatures of Mercosur&#8217;s members &#8211; Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and \u2060Uruguay &#8211; is a necessary step for the trade agreement to \u200btake effect \u200bfollowing more \u200bthan two decades \u200cof negotiations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Brazil&#8217;s lower house of Congress signed off last week, and lawmakers in Argentina and Uruguay also approved the deal. \u200cIn Paraguay, the \u200bagreement still has \u200bto be \u200bvoted on in the \u200clower house of Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting \u200bby \u200bMaria Carolina Marcello in Brasilia and Andre Romani in Sao \u200bPaulo; \u200cadditional reporting by Daniela Desantis \u200bin Asuncion, Editing by \u200bDaina Beth Solomon)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRASILIA\/SAO PAULO, March 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Brazilian lawmakers have finalized their \u200capproval of a free \u200ctrade agreement between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2106,232917,2000,299,5187,1699,5325,22708,232918],"class_list":{"0":"post-804354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-brazil","9":"tag-economic-bloc","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-free-trade-agreement","15":"tag-mercosur","16":"tag-south-american"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116173316210793902","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804354","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=804354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}