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Montevideo, July 1st 2025 - 13:27 UTC

Tag: EU-Mercosur

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

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

    “Uruguay's position is well known regarding a free trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Union”, underlined Tabare Vazquez

    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

    “Mercosur can't become an impediment for Brazil to try other forms of insertion in other economic blocks”, underlined Monteiro

    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.

  • Tuesday, June 9th 2015 - 08:06 UTC

    Paraguay believes in a 'single speed' approach to Mercosur/EU trade talks

    “We want a speedier relation with Europe, a relation which some talk about a 'two-speeds' approach, but we prefer a single speed”, said Cartes

    Paraguay believes in a 'single speed' approach to negotiations for a trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Union, but discussions must be more dynamic and wide ranging, said the country's president Horacio Cartes, currently visiting Spain.

  • Monday, June 8th 2015 - 09:11 UTC

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

    “The Uruguayan government has great interest in advancing in accords between Latin America and the Caribbean with the EU” said Sendic.

    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.

  • Friday, June 5th 2015 - 21:47 UTC

    Uruguay sacks ambassador over disagreements on Mercosur/EU trade policy

    Cancela said that the Mercosur/EU trade negotiations are on a block-to-block basis, and not with the different governments from Mercosur

    Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez removed the country's ambassador before the European Union following comments on Mercosur/EU trade and cooperation negotiations which contradicted recent statements by foreign minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa regarding trade strategy and policy.

  • Saturday, May 30th 2015 - 10:03 UTC

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

    Malmstrom “has invited Mercosur members for a meeting on 11 June”, indicated the European Commission spokesperson

    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

    'What is best for Mercosur is unity, keeping united and deciding together, each of us deciding on their own is disunity, disunity will never benefit 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

    “In June we will be receiving Paraguay's president Cartes, and most certainly we will be addressing issues related to Mercosur”, said Tabare Vazquez

    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

    Vazquez said it was necessary to grant member countries “certain degree of flexibility, so that those who wish can advance with other trade partners”

    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”.

  • Monday, May 11th 2015 - 10:16 UTC

    Vazquez and Rousseff meeting will address Mercosur/EU trade negotiations

    Mercosur members must have “the opportunity to reach bilateral agreements with other countries outside the region or other blocks”, said president Vazquez

    Uruguay and Brazil presidents, scheduled to hold a bilateral meeting next 21 May in Brasilia will be addressing Mercosur issues, and advancing in the proposal that will allow the group's members to sign bilateral agreements with third parties not belonging to the region, thus avoiding the 'consensus' clause clamp.