For more than 20 years, the European Union and the Mercosur countries struggled to negotiate over a trade agreement. Finally, while Brazil was under the leadership of Bolsonaro, a political agreement was reached in July of 2019. The deal as negotiated is in principle a neocolonial, extractivist instrument: intended to secure EU imports of commodities and raw materials from South America, while increasing EU exports of industrial and chemical products.
This briefing summarises existing studies, investigations and legal analyses by Greenpeace organisations with regards to the EU-Mercosur deal.
The briefing is also available in German here.
