{"id":39910,"date":"2019-06-29T03:22:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T03:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39910"},"modified":"2019-06-29T03:22:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T03:22:43","slug":"after-20-years-of-negotiations-eu-strikes-trade-deal-with-mercosur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39910","title":{"rendered":"After 20 years of negotiations, EU strikes trade deal with Mercosur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>After more than 20 years of negotiations, <a href=\"https:\/\/cnnespanol.cnn.com\/tag\/mercosur\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mercosur and the European Union<\/a> reached a <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/ip_19_3396\" target=\"_blank\">comprehensive trade agreement<\/a> in Brussels on Friday. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;The new trade framework &#8212; part of a wider Association Agreement between the two regions &#8212; will consolidate a strategic political and economic partnership and create significant opportunities for sustainable growth on both sides,&#8221; a European Union news release said. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">According to the EU statement, the deal aims to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2019\/06\/28\/eu-and-mercosur-strike-historic-free-trade-deal-after-20-years-of-talks\" target=\"_blank\">remove the majority of tariffs<\/a> on EU exports to Mercosur, an economic and political<strong> <\/strong>bloc comprising Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, plus several associate members. Venezuela&#8217;s membership in the group was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercosur.int\/suspension-de-venezuela-en-el-mercosur\/\" target=\"_blank\">suspended in 2017<\/a>, in a Mercosur resolution that cited a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/cancilleria.gob.ar\/en\/news\/releases\/decision-regarding-suspension-bolivarian-republic-venezuela-mercosur-through\" target=\"_blank\">rupture of democratic order<\/a>&#8221; in the country.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)After more than 20 years of negotiations, Mercosur and the European Union reached a comprehensive trade agreement in Brussels on Friday. &#8220;The new trade framework &#8212; part of a wider Association Agreement between the two regions &#8212; will consolidate a strategic political and economic partnership and create significant opportunities for sustainable growth on both sides,&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}