The ministerial meeting between the EU and Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay), which was held in Brussels on Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 July, did not enable a breakthrough for an agreement on the trade section of an association agreement between the two blocs. Negotiations for this have been ongoing since 1999 (with a break between 2005 and 2010) but Wednesday's meeting took stock of progress achieved since early 2018.
The meeting was attended by European Trade...