Documents leaked from a confidential source reveal that the EU-Mercosur deal’s proposed annex, supposedly intended to safeguard the environment, climate and human rights, does nothing to achieve this. The annex exposes a dangerous gap between the European Union’s climate goals and commitments to protect human rights, and what it actually endorses behind closed doors.
Civil society denounces opacity & lack of democratic debate on EU-Mercosur
As Europe’s trade ministers gather on 9 March for an informal trade Council, environmental, animal protection and trade groups denounce the Commission’s closed-door negotiations with Mercosur countries that aim to push through a controversial Free Trade Agreement (FTA), that has been the subject of public outrage and been rejected by national parliaments across the EU …
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EU Commission pushes EU-Mercosur deal despite highest deforestation levels ever
New data reveals that deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon reached its worst-ever February level. Despite proof of this rampant devastation, and with the Amazon likely at an irreversible environmental tipping point, the European Union continues to push for a free trade agreement with Mercosur which would increase the pressure on the region. The European Commission …
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How European trade deals will propel destructive agribusiness in the Mercosur region
The people and lands of Brazil are facing a legacy of destruction. Four years of Bolsonaro’s aggressive anti-environmental presidential agenda sparked skyrocketing levels of deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions, rural conflicts and contemporary slave labour. Now Bolsonaro is gone but major agribusiness corporations – many linked directly to European company supply chains – continue to …
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Commission slammed for “anti-democratic power grab” in EU- Mercosur trade deal negotiations
In an open statement ahead of a meeting of EU trade ministers this Friday 25th November, 200+ civil society organisations from Europe and Latin America have called on EU governments and decision-makers to oppose the European Commission’s attempt to fast-track EU-Latin American free trade deals by side-stepping national parliaments and removing member states’ veto right, …
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How European banks are funding an eco-disaster
Fact sheets on European financiers of beef and soy industries, which fuel deforestation and human rights abuses in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay Greedy agribusiness is continuously eating into South America’s biodiversity hotspots, namely the Amazon rainforest, the Cerrado savannah, the Gran Chaco dry forest, and the Pantanal wetlands. However, while the destruction of the Amazon has hit …
