{"id":391353,"date":"2025-07-03T15:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T18:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=391353"},"modified":"2025-07-03T15:40:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T18:40:49","slug":"brazil-to-prioritize-agreements-as-mercosur-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazil-to-prioritize-agreements-as-mercosur-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil to prioritize agreements as Mercosur leader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Upon assuming the pro tempore presidency of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercosur.int\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercosur<\/a> at a summit on Thursday (3) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva said that one of Brazil\u2019s priorities during its term will be to finalize ongoing trade agreements. He said Brazil aims to sign the deal with the European Union by the end of this year and mentioned negotiations with the United Arab Emirates. \u201cWe will also advance talks with Canada and the UAE,\u201d he said in part of his speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attending and speaking at the summit were Argentina\u2019s President Javier Milei, who handed over the presidency to Lula, Bolivia\u2019s President Luis Arce, Paraguay\u2019s President Santiago Pe\u00f1a, and Uruguay\u2019s President Yamand\u00fa Orsi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, Mercosur concluded negotiations on an agreement with EFTA (comprising Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Iceland, and Norway), which is expected to be signed by the end of the year. Lula mentioned the need to pursue free trade with Panama and the Dominican Republic. He also spoke about updating agreements with Ecuador and Colombia, as well as \u201clooking towards Asia,\u201d which he described as the dynamic center of the global economy, citing the need for closer ties with Japan, China, Korea, India, Vietnam, and Indonesia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other priorities mentioned by Lula during Brazil\u2019s Mercosur presidency include tackling climate change and promoting the energy transition, technological development, fighting organized crime, and promoting citizens\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mercosur, the customs union formed by Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, and Bolivia, already has free trade agreements with Palestine and Egypt among Arab countries and is negotiating a deal with the UAE. Bolivia joined the bloc later, while another member state, Venezuela, is currently suspended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more<\/em>:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/mercosur-uae-agreement-expected-for-2025\/\">Mercosur-UAE agreement expected for 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-391346\">Ricardo Stuckert\/Brazil Presidency<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon assuming the bloc\u2019s presidency, Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva advocated signing an agreement with the European Union and advancing negotiations with the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":391346,"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":[32963,34374,9534,48455,576,36210,2610,9897,9356,9579,53686],"class_list":{"0":"post-391353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-acordo-en","9":"tag-argentina-2-en","10":"tag-brazil-en","11":"tag-egypt-2","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-lula-en-2","14":"tag-mercosur","15":"tag-palestine-en","16":"tag-paraguay","17":"tag-uae-en","18":"tag-uruguayagreement"},"wps_subtitle":"Upon assuming the bloc\u2019s presidency, Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva advocated signing an agreement with the European Union and advancing negotiations with the United Arab Emirates.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391353","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\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}