The specialist for foreign trade, Miguel Poncespoke to Canal E and analyzed the current scenario of the agreement between Mercosur and the European Union. He also warned that signing the deal faces growing obstacles that could frustrate Brazilian President Lula da Silva’s goal of completing it before the end of the year.
Miguel Ponce emphasized the critical moment in the negotiations: “We are playing injury time.” As he explained, the doubts are far from being eliminated, but are deepening over time: “Every hour that goes by, I would say that More and more doubts arise“.
They would demand more time from Europe
He also referred to the position expressed by the Italian Prime Minister as a key fact. “Meloni says that Italy and Europe they need more timethat this does not mean that Italy changes its favorable position to sign the agreement, but that Macron, with his assertion, recognizes has brought the question of agricultural protection measures to the center of the debate“, he explained.
Ponce described the social impact of the agrarian conflict in France: “They have caused something that has not happened in France for a long time. Trucks dumping manure against major public buildings and on the other hand Hundreds of thousands of sheep cut the roads“.
Doubts are growing around the signing of the agreement
This scenario, he explained, had escalated the media and political conflict. “The media issue has escalated to such an extent that Ursula von Leyden, who came to sign on the 20th, It seems to me that there have been doubts in the last few hours“, held.
The interviewee explained that the negotiation had two clearly differentiated levels: “It has about two chapters, one chapter What would that be economically?but still the politician, What will the cooperation funds look like? that the European Union would send.”
On the other hand, he warned that this central point had not yet been adopted: “They haven’t voted on it yet, so It is entirely possible that we have an excuse for the delayIn his opinion, the most likely scenario is a postponement: “Delay until Juneafter the European Parliament elections.”
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