In a joint letter sent to the three European representatives, 23 European Union business associations call for swift action to finalise the free trade agreement between the EU and the Mercosur countries (see EUROPE B13310A24).
“There is no time to lose”, they write in the preamble, before asserting that this agreement is “key for the competitiveness of [their] export-oriented sectors [and] also helps to promote the EU’s open strategic autonomy in times of rising economic security...