The EU-Mercosur settlement, a free commerce treaty that the precise unanimously opposes | EUROtoday

At Les Républicains (LR), consensual topics are too uncommon to not keep on with them. Until the final second, the precise is decided to oppose the EU-Mercosur settlement. However, the matter appears to be off to a foul begin with the signing, on Saturday January 17, in Asuncion, Paraguay, of this free commerce treaty between the European Union (EU) and 4 South American nations (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay).

For their half, French agricultural unions hope to additional delay its entry into drive and demonstrated on Tuesday January 20 in Strasbourg, town the place the European Parliament sits. On Wednesday, MEPs will vote on a decision aimed toward referring the matter to the Court of Justice of the EU to verify the settlement’s compatibility with European treaties. A majority of MEPs might freeze the ratification course of till the Court’s opinion.

The 5 LR MEPs have chosen their aspect from the beginning and are actively pushing for this referral. Among the tractors and underneath the inexperienced flags of the FNSEA (National Federation of Farmers’ Unions), they have been accompanied by round thirty LR nationwide parliamentarians led by the heads of senators and deputies, Mathieu Darnaud and Laurent Wauquiez. “We have been the one French delegation current at this degree of significanceunderlines the deputy for Haute-Loire. Our goal is obvious: to acquire referral to the Court of Justice of the European Union tomorrow! » And due to this fact to proceed to place strain on the European Parliament.

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