Although the principle of a free trade agreement with the Mercosur countries seems to be convincing for almost all the factions involved, the text itself is still posing a problem within the ranks of the European Parliament.
The benefits of an agreement with this region of the world are tempered by the lack of environmental safeguards. The Chair of the European Parliament Committee on International Trade (INTA), Bernd Lange (S&D, Germany), set out the issues at stake in the debate at the...