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Tag: Mercosur summit - Caracas 2014

  • Thursday, February 6th 2014 - 21:58 UTC

    Mercosur committee to meet next week to address tariffs' reduction proposal

    Minister Figuereido told Senators the Caracas meeting will take place 12/13 February

    A Mercosur technical committee will be meeting next week in Venezuela to elaborate the group's final tariffs reduction proposal to exchange with the European Union as part of the ongoing, but long delayed, negotiations to reach an ambitious free trade agreement, according to Brazil's foreign minister Luiz Alberto Figuereido.

  • Wednesday, January 29th 2014 - 22:38 UTC

    Brazil can't be hostage of Argentina or Venezuela in Mercosur/EU trade negotiations

    Former ambassador and trade expert Rubens Barbosa says Friday meeting of Mercosur Council is decisive

    The Brazilian government is determined to advance with negotiations for a trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Union even if it means leaving Argentina for a second phase of the process, according to sources from Itamaraty, the country's foreign ministry, reported in the Rio do Janeiro media.

  • Friday, January 17th 2014 - 06:22 UTC

    Mercosur summit suspended for the third time: mid February could be next date

    Loizaga making the announcement in Asunción

    Mercosur president’s summit was suspended on Thursday for the third time, due to agenda incompatibilities, Paraguay’s Foreign Minister Eladio Loizaga confirmed in Asunción. Earlier in the day, Loizaga met with Brazilian Foreign minister Luiz Alberto Figuereido. The meeting was going to take place in Caracas, on January 31.

  • Monday, January 13th 2014 - 07:35 UTC

    A frustrated Mujica calls for a readjustment of Mercosur legal framework

    The Uruguayan president is hopeful he can hold a private talk on bilateral issues with his peer Cristina Fernandez

    Uruguayan president José Mujica said that members of Mercosur must readjust the block's legal framework ‘to make it work’ so that differences among its partners can be resolved in an institutional framework. He insisted on a review and amendment of mechanisms with greater flexibility and more adapted to current circumstances.

  • Friday, January 10th 2014 - 07:10 UTC

    The delayed Mercosur summit will have to address the EU new foreign aid policy

    The high middle-class countries such as most Mercosur members have been left out of the easy access to the European market

    When Mercosur finally holds its much delayed summit in Venezuela at the end of the month following two postponements (12 December and 17 January), besides its normal agenda of agreements and disagreements, it will have to address a new challenge, this time from the European Union which has redefined its development support policy, leaving all Mercosur members, except Paraguay out of its tariffs and market access benefits.

  • Saturday, December 21st 2013 - 05:28 UTC

    Uruguay/Argentina expected to resume bilateral dialogue at January Mercosur summit

    The last time they met was 30 September during the baptism of the catamaran ferry “Francis Pope” in Buenos Aires

    Uruguayan president Jose Mujica and his peer from Argentina Cristina Fernandez will be meeting next 17 January on the sidelines of the Mercosur summit scheduled to take place in Caracas, Venezuela. This would be the first time the two leaders meet after over seventy days of interrupted bilateral dialogue, and they have a long list of issues to address if they finally decide to discuss them.

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