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Europe demanding a decision from Mercosur on advancing the trade talks
The European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso called on Mercosur to decide whether it wishes to advance in trade talks with the European Union jointly, as a block, and suggested the idea of a 'two-speed negotiation', since it is clear that Brazil is interested in advancing and wants to reach an agreement. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWell this is an interesting turn of events.
Dec 06th, 2013 - 11:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Seems the EU is finally realising that reality may be no Mercosur agreement but that it still will gain a deal with the most important member of Mercosur, Brazil; and along with Paraguay and Uruguay avoid dealing with the economic basket cases of Venezuela and Argentina.
It is interesting the analogy with the Andean Community though. It was issues like this that have seen it slide away to irrelevance recently. (Also for the record, Chile was not a recent member, but Colombia - same ending though). The Andean Community has seen itself split into 3 camps, those that favour Mercosur's trade restrictions and have joined or applied, those that favour free trade and formed the Pacific Alliance and those that are wavering such as Ecuador. There's a lesson there.
If that Smeghead Barroso is talking like that then, it’s practically policy.
Dec 07th, 2013 - 12:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0So much for Argentina blocking any deal, simply excluded.
Truth Troll should be happy, one step closer to isolation.
naaa !! thank you. it's time EU and north America start talking to latin America as an equal partner rather than making demands, KKK is still running the planet earth.
Dec 07th, 2013 - 02:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0In don't see anyone intimidated around here with José demanding...
Dec 07th, 2013 - 05:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0And you?
@3 Before being treated as an “equal partner”, latin wherever needs to be “equal”. It's about a thousand years from that!
Dec 07th, 2013 - 12:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@4 Around where? You're not hoping someone will believe you're in latam, are you? Feel free to reject what he says. We don't want you or anything you have!
Who decided to stick this photo from the World Darts Championships into the article?
Dec 07th, 2013 - 12:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In the meantime, Paraguay is ratifying the full incorporation of Venezuela in Mercosur, according to the Paraguayan President...
Dec 07th, 2013 - 01:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0;)
7 Stevie
Dec 07th, 2013 - 03:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That was a long stretch on the briny. Double bubble I hope?
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Dec 07th, 2013 - 04:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Who decided to stick this photo from the World Darts Championships into the article?”
....I don't see him balancing a pint of beer on his belly, so maybe it's not...
“Europe demanding a decision from Mercosur on advancing the trade talks”
Dec 07th, 2013 - 09:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I really, really don't think that “Europe” is demanding anything. I think that that jumped up, squitty, commie wannabe Barroso is the only one who is “demanding” something...........
So please, please, PLEASE tell him, if he likes being a commie so much, to f**k off to North Korea, where there is more than enough communism to go round.
Surely, with the new world trade deal at Bali, this stance by Argentina - of maintaining massive tariff barriers - is (even more) logically redundant.
Dec 08th, 2013 - 10:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0If Mercosur, as a *trading body*, doesn't work for trade, then member states are free to negotiate individual trade treaties with no trade barriers.
Of course, I'll believe it when I see it, because the EU is highly protective in its own right.
There is a place for Mercosur as a left-wing political union of nations, if that's what they want, but *trading as a bloc* can only happen when the intransigents die or are removed from influence.
It happens - as with Chavez - but there is such frustration for the people when he is replaced with another 'nutter'. We must hope that CFK's replacement is not similarly blighted.
It's the EU not Europe, Europe is a continent, the EU is a bunch of dysfunctional socialists with only one glove
Dec 10th, 2013 - 02:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I would support on the one hand the opinion that before being treated as an “equal partner”, latin America needs to be “equal”
Dec 10th, 2013 - 11:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0On the other hand it seems to me sometimes EU demand too much from the countries approaching it, sometimes not taking into consideration their inner problems and way of life, but imposing EU patterns.
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