Ratification of the EU/Mercosur trade agreement has never been so close. In the Council of the European Union, a blocking minority of Member States no longer seems conceivable as far as the interim trade agreement is concerned. Only Poland remains firmly opposed to the agreement. Warsaw believes that agricultural sensitivities are not sufficiently addressed in the latest version of the agreement.
As for the other countries that have so far been critical, such as France and Italy, they have...