Tag: Mercosur

• Thursday, November 17th 2011 - 18:54 UTC

  Uruguay is Mexico’s strategic partner in Mercosur says President Calderon

  

  The Mexican president underlined the strategic importance of Uruguay since it is the only Mercosur member that has a free trade agreement with Mexico, thus making it the ‘strategic partner’ of Mexico in Mercosur.

• Thursday, November 17th 2011 - 07:08 UTC

  Mercosur is not moving but Uruguay “will not stay put licking its wounds”

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica said that Mercosur “is not moving forward or backwards” but is certainly working much better than the European Union where old experienced nations “made a mess of it”. Nevertheless, Uruguay will not stay put “licking its wounds”, it will look for other trade links.

• Wednesday, November 16th 2011 - 16:26 UTC

  Paraguay criticized for its handling of the FMD outbreak

  

  The Southern Cone Standing Veterinary Committee, CVP, accused Paraguay of not complying with promises related to foot and mouth disease, FMD, control following on the outbreak reported to the north of the country last September 18.

• Tuesday, November 15th 2011 - 16:44 UTC

  President Mujica in Mexico to boost trade and relations with G20

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica arrived Tuesday in Mexico for a two day visit to promote bilateral trade and to address with his host Felipe Calderon issues related to recent discrepancies with the G20 that described Uruguay and Panama as “fiscal havens”.

• Thursday, November 10th 2011 - 06:31 UTC

  Uruguay advised to lower Mercosur expectations and ‘follow your own interests’

  

  Mercosur expectations must be lowered and made to prosper in energy integration, infrastructure and trade, said a Uruguayan leading economist adding that without sounding dramatic “we must follow our interests”.

• Monday, November 7th 2011 - 05:13 UTC

  Uruguayan opposition accuses Argentina of having Sarkozy label the country a “tax haven”

  

  Opposition leaders in Uruguay accused Argentina of “exerting pressure inside the G20 and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)” so the neighbouring country would be labelled a “tax haven,” the Montevideo media said.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2011 - 06:01 UTC

  IberoAmerican summit a “failure”: Latam has its own voice in world affairs

  

  Spanish media criticized harshly the latest Ibero-American summit in Paraguay last Saturday arguing that the non attendance of 11 of 22 leaders of the region can only be described as a failure of Madrid’s diplomacy and disrespect for the Spanish representatives.

• Friday, October 21st 2011 - 08:35 UTC

  In Uruguay we have learnt to bury the old economic paradigms, says Mujica

  

  Uruguay’s strategy is to attract foreign private investors and offer the necessary guarantees to develop their business, said President Jose Mujica in a brief summary of his ten day European visit of four countries and the headquarters of the European Union in Brussels.

• Friday, October 21st 2011 - 07:41 UTC

  Uruguay and EC committed to advance with the EU/Mercosur association accord

  

  Uruguay and the European Commission agreed on the importance of promoting economic and investment relations and ratified their commitment to advance negotiations for a Mercosur/EU wide ranging trade and association agreement that is “integral, balanced and ambitious”.

• Thursday, October 20th 2011 - 07:08 UTC

  “Few chances” of an EU/Mercosur trade agreement in a context of global crisis

  

  In the current global context “it’s hard to see an advance in the free trade negotiations with the European Union” said on Wednesday the block’s High representative Ambassador Samuel Pinheiro Guimaraes.