{"id":1154,"date":"2023-08-05T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxiz.themeruby.com\/default\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2024-02-10T15:43:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T15:43:09","slug":"amazon-dialogues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upmercosur.org\/site\/amazon-dialogues\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU-Mercosur agreement at risk due to environmental demands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">The agreement between the EU and Mercosur \u2013 the trade bloc formed by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay \u2013 would progressively reduce and eliminate tariffs between the two regions, which have 710 million inhabitants and represent just under 18% of the world&#8217;s gross domestic product. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Europe has continued to pressure the South American bloc to commit to binding measures to tackle deforestation and, in a so-called letter attached to the agreement, has proposed changes to the chapter focused on trade and sustainable development.<\/p><cite>https:\/\/dialogochino.net\/es\/author\/flaviamilhorance\/<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This additional instrument \u2013 \u200b\u200bwhich was not officially announced but has circulated among Mercosur and EU members, and has even been leaked to environmentalists \u2013 reiterates the signatories&#8217; demand \u201cnot to lower their environmental or labor standards with the intention to attract foreign trade or investment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The agreement between the EU and Mercosur \u2013 the trade bloc formed by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay \u2013 would progressively reduce and eliminate tariffs between the two regions, which have 710 million inhabitants and represent just under 18% of the world&#8217;s gross domestic product. Europe has continued to pressure the South American bloc to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upmercosur.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upmercosur.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upmercosur.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upmercosur.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upmercosur.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/upmercosur.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2856,"href":"https:\/\/upmercosur.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions\/2856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upmercosur.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upmercosur.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upmercosur.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upmercosur.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}