Austria

Declaração, dada antes de reunião entre líderes dos 27 países do bloco, se opõe a manifestações alemã e espanhola favoráveis ao tratado

AUSTRIA has thrown the European Union’s decades-long Mercosur trade talks into disarray after the country’s new government will not support the pact in its current form.

Austria's president on Monday tasked election winner Sebastian Kurz with forming another government, putting the 33-year-old conservative on course to start tough coalition negotiations after his far-right former ally was brought down by scandals.

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So once again we learn just how committed the EU is to free trade. A trade deal with the South American bloc Mercosur – comprising Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay – has been under negotiation for 20 years. The icing appeared to be on the cake, the ribbon about to be cut – but at the end of last week it was skewered by Austria’s Parliament voting against it.

La propuesta tuvo el apoyo de todos los partidos (socialdemócratas, democristianos, ultranacionalistas e izquierdistas), con la excepción del liberal NEOS.

The lower house in Vienna says it will not ratify Brussels’ accord with Mercosur.

MPs in Austria have dealt a blow to the EU's landmark trade deal with South America's economic bloc, by demanding a government veto on the deal.

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