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Montevideo, April 8th 2026 - 13:30 UTC

Tag: European Union

  • Friday, February 13th 2026 - 04:09 UTC

    Argentina moves first in Mercosur as lower house backs EU trade deal

    President Javier Milei submitted the bill to Argentina’s Congress on 6 February and put it on the agenda for February’s extraordinary sessions

    Argentina became the first Mercosur country to secure an initial legislative green light for the trade agreement with the European Union, after the Chamber of Deputies approved the text late on Thursday. The bloc also includes Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay, which have launched their own domestic ratification processes.

  • Thursday, February 12th 2026 - 09:09 UTC

    Hundreds of tractors roll into Madrid as farmers protest CAP cuts and EU-Mercosur accord

    Columns of tractors converged on Plaza de Colón from several starting points before moving along major avenues toward the Agriculture Ministry area

    Thousands of farmers and ranchers, alongside hundreds of tractors, rallied in central Madrid on Wednesday to protest expected cuts in the next Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and to denounce the European Union’s trade agreement with Mercosur, according to organisers and authorities.

  • Thursday, January 29th 2026 - 05:29 UTC

    Latin American presidents seek common ground as regional blocs weaken

    Bernardo Arévalo, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, José Raúl Mulino, Sergio Díaz-Granados, Rodrigo Paz, Daniel Noboa and Andrew Holness.

    Seven sitting heads of government and one president-elect from Latin America and the Caribbean shared the stage in Panama on Wednesday to call for deeper regional integration, an increasingly rare show of cross-ideological alignment in a polarized region. The message was delivered at the International Economic Forum Latin America and the Caribbean, backed by CAF and designed as a high-level convening point for governments, business leaders and multilaterals.

  • Tuesday, January 27th 2026 - 15:33 UTC

    EU and India seal historic trade deal after 18 years of talks

    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who called the pact “the mother of all agreements,” said the EU and India constitute a “double engine of growth” for the world economy

    New Delhi and Brussels announced on Tuesday that they had concluded the largest bilateral trade deal in their histories after almost two decades of negotiations. The pact links India’s 1.4 billion-person economy with the 27-nation European Union and, according to both sides, will create a free-trade zone for around 2 billion consumers and sharply lower tariffs and other barriers that have long hindered commerce between the two regions.

  • Saturday, January 24th 2026 - 14:13 UTC

    Brazil courted by U.S., EU over critical minerals amid geopolitical competition

    International analysts note that Brazil could emerge as a major supplier outside the traditional dominance of China

    Brazil has positioned itself as a strategic player in the global competition for critical minerals such as graphite, nickel, and niobium, which are essential for clean energy technologies, batteries, and defense systems. Both the United States and the European Union have stepped up diplomatic and commercial engagement with Brasília to secure supply deals and cooperation in value chains considered vital for the energy transition and industrial security.

  • Friday, January 23rd 2026 - 23:04 UTC

    EU and Ecuador wrap up talks on sustainable investment deal, EU’s first SIFA with Latin America

    The EU-Ecuador talks were launched in late 2025 as Brussels sought to expand its investment toolkit beyond Europe and Africa and deepen engagement with strategic partners

    The European Union and Ecuador have concluded negotiations on a Sustainable Investment Facilitation Agreement (SIFA), in what Brussels is portraying as the bloc’s first such deal with a Latin American country, according to an EFE report on Friday.

  • Friday, January 23rd 2026 - 19:19 UTC

    EU ‘ready’ to roll out Mercosur deal once South American ratifications start, von der Leyen says

    In Brussels, the immediate obstacle is less the text itself than the institutional and political sequencing

    European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the European Union is prepared to provisionally implement the EU–Mercosur trade agreement as soon as Mercosur countries begin completing their ratification procedures, seeking to reassure partners after a European Parliament vote injected fresh uncertainty into the bloc’s approval track.

  • Wednesday, January 21st 2026 - 21:26 UTC

    European Parliament puts EU-Mercosur trade deal on hold, seeks top court legal opinion

    The parliamentary motion is based on a mechanism that allows the Court of Justice to be asked for an opinion on whether an international agreement complies with the Community legal framework

    The European Parliament voted on Wednesday to freeze its approval track for the EU-Mercosur trade agreement and request a legal opinion from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on whether the deal is compatible with EU treaties. The motion passed by a razor-thin margin —334 in favour, 324 against, with 11 abstentions— injecting new uncertainty into a pact that the two blocs had only just signed in Asunción after a quarter-century of negotiations.

  • Tuesday, January 20th 2026 - 18:09 UTC

    Macron warns Davos of a “world without rules” as Trump’s Greenland row intensifies

    Macron said the “endless accumulation” of new US tariffs was “fundamentally unacceptable” and urged Europe to respond more decisively

    French President Emmanuel Macron told the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday that the world is drifting toward a “world without rules,” where the law of “the strongest” prevails—remarks delivered against the backdrop of a deepening transatlantic dispute over Donald Trump’s push to secure control of Greenland and his fresh tariff threats.

  • Monday, January 19th 2026 - 10:57 UTC

    EU-Mercosur trade deal could turn South America into a critical minerals powerhouse

    The emphasis on critical minerals comes amid a broader geopolitical scramble for resources essential to green and digital economies

    The free trade agreement between the European Union (EU) and the Mercosur bloc (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) could help turn South America into a major player in the global market for critical minerals and rare earths, EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič said in an interview with EFE from Asunción.