'EU and Mercosur leaders ignore the voice of the
people to push forward with toxic deal’ declared the Stop EU –
Mercosur campaign alliance, a coalition of more than 450 organisations from
Latin America and Europe, including trade unions, farmers organisations, social movements, animal activists and
environmentalists. The alliance held a two-day meeting in Brussels on 17 and 18
July in parallel to the summit of EU leaders and leaders from the Community of
Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), at which a conclusion of the
highly controversial EU – Mercosur ‘free’ trade agreement was also discussed.
Around
80 representatives of Stop EU – Mercosur members from Latin America and Europe
gathered in Brussels to discuss the problems with the proposed treaty, explore
alternatives as well as co-ordinate their strategies to stop that treaty from being concluded, ratified and implemented. In this blog post, I will summarise my observations.
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