The additional instrument that the European Commission is proposing alongside the EU/Mercosur agreement has not convinced European environmental NGOs at all. Several of them, led by Friends of the Earth Europe, published, on Wednesday 22 March, the leaked document, which forms the basis of the future additional instrument to be negotiated with the Mercosur countries. According to them, the instrument offers only “cosmetic, aspirational and unenforceable adjustments”.
“There is no...