Portugal insists that the EU-Mercosur trade agreement is a “top priority”
Speaking at the entrance to a meeting of the informal president of trade ministers of the 27 organized by the head of Portuguese diplomacy, he recalled that, during the first half of 2021, and in view of the natural issues raised by some Member States and environmental policies in the European Parliament on the dimension of the Latin American agreement agreed to negotiate an additional instrument, to be proposed by the European Commission, which, however, has not yet been presented.
“During the second that Portuguese, an agreement of informal agreement with our friends of Mercosur Agreement and, agreement according to the commitments of the agreement of agreement of an agreement according to the commitments of the additional forestry to clarify the commitments of the afforestation and ensure that the Paris afforestation commitments will have waiting for the two as parties.
The head of state reiterated that “for Portugal and many Member States, the agreement with Mercosur is a priority, a top priority”.
Questioning whether the agreement is compatible with the Parliament a majority of the surveyed EU member states, Augusto some Santos Silva said that “for families” that give “an answer”, not least because the “concerns” are natural.
“We need to add that the agreement means a commitment, on the part of both parties, including Brazil and Argentina, to assume the objectives of the Paris Agreement. , and we have to initiate them”, he defended.
Looking ahead to today’s meeting in Marseille, the minister also said he expected an important discussion on trade issues between Africa and the European Union, antechamber of the EU-Africa summit, which will take place between Thursday and Friday in Brussels, as “trade is a of the main dimensions” of this partnership.
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