Agreement between the European Union and Mercosur should be signed on December 20, says Foreign Minister.
Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira stated on Wednesday that the trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur, approved in December 2024, should be signed on December 20th.
The chancellor told reporters that the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, reaffirmed her certainty that the agreement will be signed on this date in Rio de Janeiro.
In early September, after a conversation with the President of the European Commission, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expressed his expectation that the agreement between Mercosur and the European Union would be signed by the end of this year, according to a statement from the Planalto Palace.
The EU and the bloc formed by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay reached an agreement to create the largest trade deal in EU history last December, some 25 years after negotiations began.
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