Mercosur

• Wednesday, June 10th 2015 - 06:53 UTC

  Uruguay says Brazil and Paraguay are ready to sign trade accord with Europe

  

  Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez said that Uruguay, Brazil and Paraguay are ready to sign the long delayed trade and cooperation agreement between Mercosur and the European Union. Such an agreement has become one of the cornerstones of Vazquez presidency faced with falling exports and limited markets.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2015 - 08:20 UTC

  Brazil determined to advance Mercosur/EU trade talks in this week's meeting

  

  A top Brazilian minister said that Mercosur must allow member countries to sign trade agreements with third parties and called for the end to the rule which prevents such initiative. Development, Industry and Trade minister Armando Monteiro Neto made the statement during a competitiveness seminar in Rio do Janeiro a couple of days ahead of a crucial meeting in Brussels between Mercosur representatives and the European Union to address an encompassing free trade agreement.

• Monday, June 8th 2015 - 09:11 UTC

  Uruguay's vice-president travels to Brussels to advance Mercosur/EU trade talks

  

  Uruguay's vice-president Raúl Sendic and Foreign minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa will be attending this week's summit of EU and Celac leaders scheduled in Brussels, which will also address in the sidelines, current EU/Mercosur negotiations for a wide ranging trade agreement.

• Saturday, May 30th 2015 - 10:03 UTC

  Mercosur/EU officials will assess trade talks in Brussels on 11 June

  

  Mercosur foreign ministers will be meeting in June with the European Union Trade Commissionaire Cecilia Malmstrom to 'assess' the current negotiations for a comprehensive trade and cooperation agreement. The meeting in Brussels will be on the sidelines of the EU-Celac (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) summit, the first at ministerial level since January 2013

• Tuesday, May 26th 2015 - 06:44 UTC

  Argentina invokes unity and rejects proposal for a more 'flexible' Mercosur

  

  Brazil and Uruguay's plan for a more 'flexible' Mercosur to speed negotiations for an encompassing long delayed trade agreement with the European Union have stumbled with the first official reaction from Argentina, which does not agree with the tariffs' proposals policy or individual trade initiatives from member countries.

• Monday, May 25th 2015 - 08:00 UTC

  Brazil/Uruguay expect Paraguay to join in speeding Mercosur/EU negotiations

  

  Uruguay will be hosting Paraguayan president Horacio Cartes in early June when he is expected to confirm' his country's support to Uruguay and Brazil in their renewed approach to accelerate negotiations for the signing of a full cooperation and free trade agreement with the European Union, which were started fifteen years ago.

• Friday, May 22nd 2015 - 05:49 UTC

  Brazil and Uruguay on an “urgent and necessary” redesign of Mercosur

  

  Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez said it was “urgent and necessary” to redesign Mercosur so as to give its members greater 'trade flexibility'. Vazquez made the statements following Thursday meeting with his peer Dilma Rousseff in Brasilia and underlined “it would be naive to admit that Mercosur as it stands currently, is satisfactory”.

• Thursday, May 21st 2015 - 07:27 UTC

  Uruguay and Brazil summit to consider a more flexible Mercosur

  

  Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez will be meeting his peer, Dilma Rousseff in Brasilia this Thursday to address a dense bilateral agenda, and more specifically the workings and future of Mercosur, in search for a more flexible group, open to agreements with third parties.

• Friday, May 15th 2015 - 07:53 UTC

  Uruguay convinced Mercosur will be more flexible regarding trade accords with third parties

  

  Mercosur countries have reached a basic consensus to look for mechanisms that will allow individual members to negotiate trade agreements outside the block, announced Uruguay's foreign minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa, who has been leading a strong campaign (with Brazilian support) on the issue.

• Wednesday, May 13th 2015 - 08:05 UTC

  Bolivia closer to Mercosur full membership; coming summit in Brasilia decisive

  

  Bolivia is closer to becoming a full member of Mercosur following on Argentina's ratification of the Adhesion Protocol.