Mercosur

• Tuesday, May 31st 2011 - 22:46 UTC

  Brazil approves system to elect representatives for Mercosur parliament

  

  The Brazilian congress passed the rules for the election by political parties of Mercosur parliament representatives, which beginning 2014 are to be chosen by popular vote.

• Saturday, May 28th 2011 - 08:02 UTC

  Mercosur tourism ministers address ‘border crossings” and overseas promotion

  

  Mercosur tourism ministers agreed to facilitate border crossings for citizens from country members and to draft a homogeneous system for keeping the industry’s statistics, during their XI meeting held in Asuncion, Paraguay.

• Friday, May 27th 2011 - 22:42 UTC

  Brazil/Argentina relations not contaminated by trade spat, in spite of industry worries

  

  Robert da Fonseca, director of the Sao Paolo Industry Federation, FIESP admitted on Friday that Brazilian businessmen are “worried” with the commercial conflict that Argentina and Brazil face.

• Friday, May 27th 2011 - 08:48 UTC

  Real estate operations in Punta del Este reached 2.25 billion USD in 12 months

  

  Real estate operations in Uruguay’s hottest resort and leisure farms’ area totalled 2.55 billion US dollars in the twelve months to April 2011, equivalent to daily deals involving 7 million USD.

• Friday, May 27th 2011 - 01:53 UTC

  Montevideo port ranked ahead of Brazil’s Rio Grande in 2010

  

  In a ranking of the busiest port terminals in Latin America & Caribbean, elaborated in a work of Infrastructure Services Unit of ECLAC, Port of Rio Grande (RS) lost position for the Port of Montevideo, Uruguay. So they were, respectively, the 21st and 19th positions from the list.

• Thursday, May 26th 2011 - 07:15 UTC

  President of Plaza de Mayo Grandmothers, Mercosur ‘illustrious citizen’

  

  The president of Argentina’s Plaza de Mayo Grandmothers Estela de Carlotto will be honoured as “illustrious citizen” of Mercosur during the group’s coming summit to be celebrated in Asuncion, Paraguay at the end of June, reported the Argentine Foreign Affairs ministry.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2011 - 23:45 UTC

  Paraguay and European MPs address impasse in Mercosur/EU trade talks

  

  The apparent impasse in the European Union/Mercosur trade talks was addressed by the Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo at a meeting on Tuesday with Members of the European Parliament and the EU delegation to Mercosur negotiations.

• Sunday, May 22nd 2011 - 12:40 UTC

  Rousseff’s main advisor describes Brazil/Argentina relations as “fine”

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff's international affairs advisor Marco Aurélio García lowered the tone of the trade conflict with Argentina and said that the relationship between both countries “is fine” despite the trade barriers that Brazil imposed on the import of Argentine cars.

• Saturday, May 21st 2011 - 10:18 UTC

  Delhi proposal to triangle South Africa Customs Union, India and Mercosur

  

  India will be launching negotiations for a comprehensive economic cooperation agreement (CECA) with Mercosur although it will first “expedite” talks for a preferential trade agreement with the South African Customs Union (SACU).

• Saturday, May 21st 2011 - 03:09 UTC

  EU and Latam lawmakers more positive about a trade agreement with Mercosur

  

  The outcome of a two-day European and Latin America lawmakers’ meeting in Uruguay was considered very positive and a strong message to forward negotiations on the sensitive EU/Mercosur trade and cooperation agreement.