Uruguay and Argentina are the first Mercosur countries to ratify the free trade agreement with the EU. This increases pressure on the European Commission to proceed with provisional application. Geopolitical factors also play a role.
Von Antonia Zimmermann
The reduction of tariffs on US products as part of the trade deal with the EU has been put on hold for the time being. The Parliament and the Commission are waiting for more detailed information from the US.
Von János Allenbach-Ammann
By a narrow majority, the European Parliament has referred the EU-Mercosur trade deal to the European Court of Justice. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is now calling for its provisional application. Bernd Lange believes that there would be a majority for this in Parliament.
Von Markus Grabitz und János Allenbach-Ammann
Critics of the Mercosur agreement have recently been able to extract a number of commitments for agriculture from the European Commission. However, in practice not all of them are likely to make a big difference.
Von Julia Dahm
The liberalization of EU genetically engineering legislation has taken a key step forward. However, this was not thanks to the German government.
Von Julia Dahm
The EPP is satisfied with the Commission’s ideas, while the Social Democrats dismiss them as “cosmetic changes”. A joint parliamentary resolution against the Commission’s MFF proposal is off the table for the time being.
Von János Allenbach-Ammann
Christian Democrats, Social Democrats, Liberals and Greens are calling on the Commission to make legislative changes to the proposal for the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). They are indirectly threatening to reject it in Parliament.
Von János Allenbach-Ammann und Markus Grabitz
