While France has sought in recent months to mobilize the other member states with rural tradition against the EU-mercosur agreement, with the idea of coalizing a blocking minority in the European Parliament and preventing the ratification of the free trade treaty, Spain, the second largest European country in agricultural area, pushes, on the contrary, to accelerate its entry into force.
On the move in Uruguay and Paraguay Tuesday, July 22 and Wednesday, July 22, the head of the Spanish government, the socialist Pedro Sanchez, pleaded in favor of the agreement signed, at the end of 2024, between the four member countries of Mercosur-Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay-and the European Commission, by recalling the current context of strong trade tensions with the United States of Donald Trump.
“We must avoid a trade war, but if it occurs, Europe must be up tohe argued on July 23. The entry into force of the EU-mercosur agreement is fundamental from an economic point of view, but also as a political message in favor of the creation of partnerships and large communities, and the defense of a multilateral order “, He added, in Asuncion, where he signed two memorandums of cooperation with Paraguay, in cultural matters and in favor of circular migration.
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