Just two weeks after the EU-Mercosur trade agreement took effect, the EU announced a September ban on Brazilian meat imports over the use of antimicrobials for animal growth. Is this ban permanent, and what does it reveal about the limits of the agreement?
The EU-Mercosur deal spoke of “alignment of production standards,” but animal welfare groups said it risked promoting intensive animal farming in Latin America.
It is now just a matter of weeks before the famous EU-Mercosur free trade agreement comes into effect, at least provisionally. How will this provisional implementation affect European consumers and farmers? and How did we get here?
The EU Commission’s decision to apply the Mercosur trade deal will be poorly received by some MEPs – and has already been attacked by France. This follows the ratification by the parliaments in Argentina and Uruguay.
MEPs say the so-called ‘safeguards’ regulation will ensure European farmers are not put out of business by cheap imports from South America.
In Brazil’s Tapajós region, hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting for days outside a Cargill export facility, opposing a federal decree that opens Amazonian rivers to private concessions and expanded dredging.
