Mercosur

• Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 04:23 UTC

  Bolivia’s Morales yields to Amazon Indian protests and scraps plan to build highway

  

  President Evo Morales said Friday that he was scrapping plans to build a highway through a nature reserve in Bolivia's jungle lowlands, bowing to public pressure after a two-month protest march by Amazon Indians.

• Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 00:43 UTC

  Mercosur and EU will be ready to exchange trade proposals ‘in June 2012’

  

  Mercosur and the European Union are committed to presenting their proposals with list of products for a free trade agreement in June 2012, announced on Friday Uruguay’s Foreign Affaire minister Luis Almagro.

• Saturday, October 22nd 2011 - 00:42 UTC

  Doctor who warned of Chavez serious health condition abandons Venezuela with his family

  

  The Venezuelan doctor who forecast President Hugo Chavez had two years left because of the aggressiveness of his pelvic cancer said on Friday he had left the country with his family after colleagues reported police visiting his consultancy.

• Friday, October 21st 2011 - 07:41 UTC

  Uruguay and EC committed to advance with the EU/Mercosur association accord

  

  Uruguay and the European Commission agreed on the importance of promoting economic and investment relations and ratified their commitment to advance negotiations for a Mercosur/EU wide ranging trade and association agreement that is “integral, balanced and ambitious”.

• Thursday, October 20th 2011 - 07:08 UTC

  “Few chances” of an EU/Mercosur trade agreement in a context of global crisis

  

  In the current global context “it’s hard to see an advance in the free trade negotiations with the European Union” said on Wednesday the block’s High representative Ambassador Samuel Pinheiro Guimaraes.

• Thursday, October 20th 2011 - 07:05 UTC

  IBSA group plans 25bn trade and FTA with Mercosur and Sacu

  

  In an attempt to accelerate talks on a trilateral free trade agreement (FTA) , the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) summit decided to hold an annual meeting of trade ministers from the three countries beginning from March next year.

• Thursday, October 20th 2011 - 04:07 UTC

  UK Parliament praises Brazil, but regrets its ‘hardening’ policy towards Falklands

  

  Britain’s House of Commons strongly supports a closer bilateral relationship with Brazil, which it describes as a democratic, well governed, responsible state but regrets the hardening position of Brazil towards the Falklands and the HMS Clyde incident.

• Wednesday, October 19th 2011 - 07:27 UTC

  Germany committed to an EU/Mercosur trade agreement said Merkel

  

  The European Union will seek to further discussions over a trade deal with Mercosur at the upcoming G20 summit in Cannes in November announced on Tuesday German Chancellor Angela Merkel alongside visiting Uruguayan president Jose Mujica.

• Tuesday, October 18th 2011 - 09:04 UTC

  Mujica tries “to sell” Uruguay in Hamburg; Tuesday with Chancellor Merkel

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica tried to seduce German investors and business people during his first day visit to Germany which has been marked by the impact of the European crisis. On Tuesday he is scheduled to meet Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Christian Wulff.

• Tuesday, October 18th 2011 - 09:01 UTC

  Mujica: relations with Argentina excellent; Vazquez retiring is ‘no tragedy’

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica currently visiting Germany said that relations with Argentine are very good and forecasted that President Cristina Fernandez will win he re-election bid next Sunday as he had anticipated two years ago.