Tag: Aloyso Nunes

• Saturday, September 1st 2018 - 08:00 UTC

  Mercosur expecting a “move” from the EU at this month's negotiations in Montevideo

  

  Brazil's Foreign Minister Aloysio Nunes said he expects more “movement” from the European Union as long running talks on a free trade deal with his South American bloc Mercosur head into the home stretch.

• Tuesday, August 14th 2018 - 07:25 UTC

  Pentagon chief in Brazil and Argentina to strengthen bilateral relations

  

  United States Defense Secretary James N. Mattis and Foreign Minister Aloysio Nunes of Brazil met on Monday at the Itamaraty Palace in Brazil to reaffirm the long-standing bilateral relationship between their nations, chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana W. White said.

• Thursday, December 14th 2017 - 05:53 UTC

  Mercosur/EU accord will have to wait until 2018; Europe needs more time to assess latest proposal

  

  Negotiations for a trade deal between the European Union and Mercosur will extend into next year, officials from both sides said on Wednesday, after the Europeans asked for more time to analyze proposed changes.

• Saturday, August 5th 2017 - 07:55 UTC

  Mercosur foreign ministers will discuss the Venezuela situation in Brazil

  

  Mercosur foreign ministers are scheduled to meet this Saturday in Sao Paulo to decide on to how to address latest events in Venezuela, the fifth member of the group which remains suspended, and so far has not replied to calls to cancel the constituent assembly procedure and attempt some form of dialogue with the political opposition.

• Monday, March 6th 2017 - 06:40 UTC

  New Brazilian minister wants closer Mercosur-Pacific Alliance relations

  

  Giving new life to Mercosur and closer links with the Pacific Alliance are the main challenges of his office said Aloysio Nunes, Brazil's new foreign minister. In as brief statement in Facebook the ex senator and chair of the foreign affair committee also insists that Mercosur must open to the world and reach more agreements with other countries and trade spaces.

• Friday, March 3rd 2017 - 11:48 UTC

  New Brazilian foreign minister no fan of Trump, but sponsors free trade, Mercosur and the Pacific Alliance

  

  Brazil's president has picked as his new foreign minister a man who has sharply criticized U.S. President Donald Trump. President Michel Temer named Sen. Aloysio Nunes to the post Thursday to replace Jose Serra. Serra resigned last week for medical reasons. The appointment doesn't require congressional approval. Both Nunes and Serra belong to the center PSDB party, senior member of the ruling coalition.

• Thursday, April 21st 2016 - 11:22 UTC

  Rousseff will claim before UN she is victim of a “coup d'état without weapons”

  

  Embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will travel to New York in a bid to rally international support against her impeachment, leaving behind a Cabinet paralyzed by political crisis as another minister defected Wednesday.

• Tuesday, August 4th 2015 - 05:02 UTC

  Lula da Silva's 'fund-raiser' Dirceu again involved: this time with Petrobras

  

  Brazilian police on Monday arrested former government minister Jose Dirceu, one of the most senior members of the ruling Workers' Party to be detained so far in a corruption scandal engulfing state-run oil company Petrobras.

• Friday, June 19th 2015 - 23:36 UTC

  Venezuelan pickets stone and threaten visiting Brazilian senators

  

  Brazilian senators seeking on Thursday to visit jailed opposition leaders in Venezuela said their minibus was stoned and blocked, forcing them to return to the airport. The group of opposition senators had planned to drive from the coastal airport of Maiquetía to the capital Caracas and then on to a military jail where hard-line opposition leader Leopoldo López has been for more than a year.