Study reveals: the EU-Mercosur agreement promotes the automotive industry at the expense of climate and human rights
According to a study from CIDSE, Misereor, PowerShift, Attac and other NGOs – “Stopping the mobility revolution” – car companies have significantly influenced the negotiations of the trade agreement between the EU and the Mercosur states – and would benefit particularly from this agreement. However, the lobbying activities were not only carried out by the car companies themselves. Internal emails show how employees of the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and the EU Commission actively approached business organisations to find out their wishes and feed them into the negotiations with the Mercosur states.
The report is available in German, Spanish and Portuguese here.
