Tag: Gerardo Alckim

• Wednesday, July 16th 2025 - 09:49 UTC

  Brazil eager to avert higher US tariffs

  

  Brazil is actively working to avert the implementation of 50% tariffs on its products by the United States, set to take effect on August 1 as announced by President Donald Trump. Vice President Geraldo Alckmin, along with other ministers, met with leaders from the industrial and agricultural sectors to discuss the severe potential impacts.

• Saturday, March 18th 2023 - 10:01 UTC

  Alckmin discusses Brazil's ties with European envoy beyond Mercosur

  

  Brazilian Vice President Geraldo Alckmin met Friday with the European Commission's Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager to discuss the South American country's relations beyond the Mercosur deal, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Tuesday, January 24th 2023 - 08:30 UTC

  EU and Brazil address the 2007 strategic partnership and bilateral relations

  

  Brazilian Vice-President Geraldo Alckmin currently acting as President while Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is in Argentina for the CELAC meeting, met in Brasilia with the Executive Vice-president of the European Commission Frans Timmermans to address deepening of bilateral relations, in the framework of the 2007 strategic partnership existent between the European Union and Latin America's largest economy .

• Tuesday, December 21st 2021 - 09:58 UTC

  Lula-Alckmin ticket more likely after dinner with anti-Bolsonarists

  

  Former political rivals Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva and Geraldo Alckmin Sunda had dinner and agreed to join forces to drive incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro out of the Planalto Palace in next year's elections.

• Saturday, October 1st 2016 - 02:46 UTC

  Sao Paulo mayor race has become a puppets' dispute between presidential hopefuls

  

  Next Sunday Brazilians will be going to the polls to elect mayors and councilors in 5.570 cities and towns across the country in what is the first test of the mood of voters since the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff last month.

• Wednesday, May 7th 2014 - 07:11 UTC

  Sao Paulo offers 22.000 dollars rewards to whoever turns in data on criminals

  

  With just over a month left for the 2014 World Cup kick off in Brazil, the governor of the state of Sao Paulo launched the Regional Reward program which will pay 55.000 Reales (approximately 22.000 dollars) to anyone providing useful information to help to solve crimes and track perpetrators.

• Saturday, August 10th 2013 - 02:04 UTC

  Corruption allegations in crucial Sao Paulo city reach Brazil’s main opposition party

  

  After the mensalão case rocked Brazil’s ruling party, it seems it’s now the turn of the Social Democrats (PSDB), the main opposition party. The Attorney General’s office and the police are investigating the allegations against the PSDB and if its leaders received kickbacks from a scheme involving the maintenance of train and metro lines in Sao Paulo.