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    L’UE e i paesi del Mercosur firmano uno storico accordo di libero scambio.

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    1. Spiritual_Pangolin18 on

      For those who keep complaining about the pesticides/chemicals used by some brazilian farms:

      1. You are not forced to buy brazilian beef. If your supermarket is lying about the food they sell to you, you have bigger problems than just beef.
      2. You can remove pesticides or any chemical from the equation. Brazilian farming would still beat EU farming by a mile: Way more land, way BETTER land, and more tech.
      3. LATAM is crucial in european and global food chains since 16 century. This participation is inevitable and dictated by climate and natural resources.

      Just explaining point 2:

      Brazil is way ahead because it doesn’t have a real winter. While European farmers have to pack it up when the snow hits, brazil farmers can often plant, grow, and harvest two or even three different crops on the same piece of dirt in a single year. Their flat plains are perfect for **giant** tractors. While European farms are often small and hemmed in by villages, Mercosur farms can be the size of entire EU counties. Plowing is also optional in Brazilian soil, which means that they just ignore and this is a huge business advantage. Some regions have “red soil” which is extremely rich in nutrients and originate from volcanic rocks.

      Regarding tech, yeah, Brazil uses the same imported tractors as the EU, just way bigger versions. But the real advantage is their investments in biotechnology in the past decades. While Europe is stuck in endless red tape and bans on GMOs, Brazil turned into a biotech beast. They didn’t just wait for better weather; they invested billions on “Embrapa” to literally bioengineer crops like soy to handle the tropical heat and grow fast enough to squeeze two or three harvests into a single year. Plus, instead of blowing a fortune on chemical fertilizers like Europeans do, Brazilian farmers use good bacteria that suck nitrogen out of the air and feed the plants for free. It is basically a biological cheat code because by using custom genetics and living pesticides, Brazil produces way more food, way faster, and for way less money than the old school, chemical heavy European way.

    4. Select_Property_8650 on

      Europeans who reject Brazilian agriculture due to lobbying or snobbery have failed to realize that if a war breaks out, their own domestic agricultural production will not be able to sustain anything.

    5. No2Hypocrites on

      And the customs agreement with turkey gets worse….(for turkey)

    6. Affectionate-Egg7566 on

      Wonderful given the US has become unreliable.

      Mercosur has rules regarding politics, democracy, and human rights. Venezuela was suspended from it because it became a dictatorship. That is how you deal with them. Exclude them and ideally aim the arsenal of democracy at them.

      We now need to put pressure on the US to let the population feel the effects of democratic backsliding hard because appeasement never works.

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