Brazil and Germany committed to achieve the EU/Mercosur trade agreement

Wednesday, February 15th 2012 - 05:50 UTC

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Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota and his visiting German counterpart Guido Westerwelle on Monday called for signing a free trade agreement between the European Union and the South American trade bloc Mercosur. Read full article

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GeoffWard2
Linkage between Brasil and Germany is a 'no-brainer'.
Linkage between Mercosur and the EU is similarly obvious and mutually beneficial.

But if the French and Irish farmers, and the Argentinan government continue to block the better interests of some 30-40 nations, then I would be strongly in favour of dumping France, Ireland and Argentina and creating 'bilateral' trading (etc) agreements that remove these countries from the partnerships.

In practice, FR and IR have established a negotiating position which is not a 'deal-breaker' . . . . but Argentina is 'something else again'!

It would be sensible, however, to have across-the-board compatibility across the rest of the EU/Mercosur nations because, at some time, these 'bilateral' agreements will have to let the errant nations back into the fold and having a simply unpickable single-structured set of deals will be so much more tractible than 30 structurally different bilateral packages across upwards of 100 different commodities.
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