On Friday 9 October, the NGO Greenpeace released the text of the EU/Mercosur Association Agreement (which contains the free trade agreement concluded by the two parties) and deplored the absence in the text of a sanction clause requiring that the EU and the Mercosur countries respect the climate and protect the environment.
“Unlike requirements in the deal to respect human rights or to resist the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, environmental and climate protection is not...