{"id":18068,"date":"2005-07-13T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/mercosur-eu-trade-agreement-may-be-ready-in-a-year\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T22:24:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:24:48","slug":"mercosur-eu-trade-agreement-may-be-ready-in-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/mercosur-eu-trade-agreement-may-be-ready-in-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercosur-EU trade agreement may be ready in a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><STRONG>Ag\u00eancia Brasil<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/> <P>S\u00e3o Paulo &#8211; A top official in the European Union says she hopes the Biregional Association Agreement between the EU and Mercosur will be ready in time for the 4th EU-Latin American-Caribbean Summit which is scheduled to take place in May 2006 in Vienna. The EU commissioner for Foreign Relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, says she will push for negotiations with the goal of reaching an agreement in time for the Vienna conference. <\/P><br \/> <P>Ferrero-Waldner says an important step will be a ministerial meeting in Geneva on September 2. Last year the two sides actually made offers but they were considered inadequate. &quot;We have been negotiating for a long time. Now we are in the final stretch and that is where all kinds of problems pop up,&quot; she said, adding that most of them were in agriculture, investments, government procurement and autos. She called on the business community to get behind the agreement.<\/P><br \/> <P>On a visit to Latin America, Ferrero-Waldner stopped first in Brazil which she called a &quot;global player.&quot; She went on to say that &quot;Brazil is an emerging global power. We hope Brazil will play the role of leader in trade.&quot;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ag\u00eancia Brasil S\u00e3o Paulo &#8211; A top official in the European Union says she hopes the Biregional Association Agreement between the EU and Mercosur will be ready in time for the 4th EU-Latin American-Caribbean Summit which is scheduled to take place in May 2006 in Vienna. The EU commissioner for Foreign Relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}