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    La firma del Mercosur è stata ritardata fino a gennaio, ha detto ai leader von der Leyen

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    1. Chester_roaster on

      Just sign it already, the French won’t be any happier in January. At least this way they have Christmas to get over it. 

    3. Stannis_Loyalist on

      Lmao, it cannot be delayed. Brazil said they would walk away from the table if it isn’t signed this year. Most will likely follow.

      >[“I’ve already warned them: If we don’t do it now, Brazil won’t make any more agreements while I’m president,” Lula told a cabinet meeting](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/17/brazil-threatens-to-walk-away-if-further-delays-to-eu-mercosur-trade-deal).

      Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay already making bilateral meeting with China and America.

    5. Schnorch on

      This means that the agreement is dead, and with it the plan for a stronger and more independent Europe.

      Congratulations to France for ensuring that Europe remains a vassal of the US and China, and that only for a handful of spoiled farmers who are stuffed with our tax money.

      Trump is right. The EU is a fucking joke.

    6. VigorousElk on

      In economic stagnation we’re giving up on a massive trade deal, because some spoilt farmers rioted AGAIN? The EU is so dead.

    7. 11160704 on

      Meloni in a phone call to Lula

      > “Then she asked me to be patient for a week, 10 days, at most a month, and that Italy would sign up”

      Almost stereotypical Italian delay. “Give me a weeka, tena daysa or a montha”

    9. spadasinul on

      So the deal is dead, nice to see the EU making new friends and allies! /s

    10. XAMdG on

      At this point Mercosur should put its foot down and stop trying to negotatiate further. Europe can sign it whenever they feel like, but the deal is as it is today. It’s up to the EU to sort out their priorities and if they indeed want to help consumers.

    12. HzPips on

      The reality here is that some EU countries want the deal, and some don’t, no matter what special clauses are implemented. Those that don’t want are strong enough to nuke it, but don’t want to do it openly to avoid antagonizing their members.

      Negotiation is pointless, there isn’t enough wiggle room to make anything work.

    13. Urzuck on

      Europe at this point is like the Ent in Lotr, 2000 years of discussions to decide to not decide anything lmao.

    14. araujoms on

      It makes me really angry to see how powerful farmers are. They make up a tiny part of the economy, live from subsidies from the rest of us, and any time they go to the street the government instantly caves.

    15. SavoySpaceProgram on

      To those asking what will change in a month:
      France is currently facing large farmer riots but contrarily to what many posts suggests this is not primarily due to the Mercosur trade deal.

      There is an outbreak of lumpy skin disease in part of the country, a bovine disease that requires culling the whole herd when a single case is detected.

      This is traumatic for the farmers experiencing it. This summer, the Alps were affected badly, now it’s the Pyrenees. While no massive protests erupted in the summer it seems that a lot of disinformation have been circulating to fuel it this time.

      So this is the reason France asked for that delay. They want to have the protest under control and don’t want the signature on Saturday to be used as a rally cry that would broaden the protest.

      I’m not saying whether this is a good or bad reason, but factually there’s more reasoning than just “France is dragging its feet as always”.

    16. Budget_Afternoon_800 on

      Great news: Europe already has too many foreign dependencies that constrain its geopolitics, and it needs to understand that the 21st century is no longer about trade, but about sovereignty and power. Making us dependent on South America for food is putting yet another chain around our necks. On top of that, it makes no ecological sense: it encourages deforestation of the Amazon and results in a disastrous carbon footprint, not to mention health issues due to much lower standards. This agreement is nonsense.

    17. spadasinul on

      “Spending all night seething at europeans at shilling for mercosur garbage is something an indian would do. Reveal thyself, gypsy.”

      This is a direct mesage i’ve received. The state of the EU btw…

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