(Reuters) – Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira stated this Wednesday that the trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur, approved in December 2024, should be signed on December 20th.
The chancellor told journalists 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 the expectation that the agreement between Mercosur and the European Union would be signed at the end of this year, according to a statement from Palácio do Planalto.
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The EU and the bloc made up of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay reached an agreement to create the biggest trade deal in EU history last December, some 25 years after negotiations began.
