Mercosur

• Wednesday, October 12th 2011 - 05:48 UTC

  Argentine president suspends activities because of low blood pressure

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner decided on Tuesday to cancel her attendance to a political rally due to a case of low blood pressure, her spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro announced.

• Tuesday, October 11th 2011 - 23:41 UTC

  Uruguay celebrated the bicentennial with a huge colourful popular party

  

  Uruguay celebrated Monday October 10 the bicentennial of its emancipation process with a great colourful, open party that attracted over 300.000 people to the streets and stages in the capital Montevideo.

• Tuesday, October 11th 2011 - 07:20 UTC

  Mercosur a ‘priority’ almost a ‘sanctuary’ for Brazilian trade and diplomacy

  

  Brazil is reinforcing its diplomacy’s legal and trade departments in anticipation of a major impact from a possible global situation and in this context “Mercosur is a priority, almost a sanctuary” announced Monday the Foreign Affaire ministry.

• Tuesday, October 11th 2011 - 07:13 UTC

  Brazil is a “decisive partner” for Argentina in the event of a major crisis

  

  For Argentina, Brazil is a “decisive partner” in addressing the negative effects of the world economic crisis which has hit the United States and the European Union, said on Monday Argentina’s Deputy Economy minister Roberto Feletti.

• Thursday, October 6th 2011 - 02:16 UTC

  Uruguayan auto assembly industry exempt of Brazil’s IPI 30% tax increase

  

  In the framework of the so called Plan Maior, Brazil adopted measures to stimulate its industry with the purpose of increasing productivity and containing competition from Chinese produce in its domestic market.

• Thursday, October 6th 2011 - 01:55 UTC

  “Mercosur won’t destroy European agriculture”, says EU business lobby

  

  The head of Business-Europe International Relations said Wednesday that a free trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur “would not destroy European agriculture” in spite of fears from farmers.

• Wednesday, October 5th 2011 - 08:02 UTC

  Corporations call for ambitious EU/Mercosur deal and hope farm issues do not ‘derail the project’

  

  Major European corporations called on political leaders for an “ambitious and balanced” European Union-Mercosur trade agreement and asked that ‘agriculture issues’ impacts do not derail the project.

• Tuesday, October 4th 2011 - 06:45 UTC

  EU farm losses from trade deal with Mercosur ‘would range 1 to 3 billion Euros’

  

  European Union farmers could suffer losses ranking from one to three billion Euros if a trade agreement is finally agreed with Mercosur according to a European Commission evaluation paper on the impact.

• Monday, October 3rd 2011 - 05:24 UTC

  Mercosur/EU trade and Euro crisis, in President Rousseff agenda in Brussels

  

  The Mercosur-EU trade agreement is one of several issues Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff will be addressing Monday in Brussels during the fifth Brazil-EU summit. Rousseff begins in Belgium an official visit to Europe that also includes Turkey and Bulgaria.

• Monday, September 26th 2011 - 18:33 UTC

  Uruguay begins negotiations to mitigate Brazilian trade restrictions

  

  A Uruguayan government delegation will begin talks on Tuesday in Brazil to address the latest restrictions imposed by Mercosur largest member and which threaten several manufacturing sectors, particularly the auto industry, said Foreign Affairs minister Luis Almagro.