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EU-Mercosur trade pact ‘not acceptable’ as is: French minister

TDT | Frankfurt

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France still opposes a proposed free-trade agreement between the European Union and South American trading bloc Mercosur, the French finance minister told a German newspaper in an interview published Sunday. “As it stands, the treaty is simply not acceptable,” Roland Lescure told Handelsblatt, the German financial daily. His comments complicate European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s upcoming trip to Brazil.