{"id":10789,"date":"2025-12-16T13:03:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T13:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/eu-parliament-votes-to-harden-mercosur-safeguards-before-crunch-talks-with-capitals-politico\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T13:03:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T13:03:50","slug":"eu-parliament-votes-to-harden-mercosur-safeguards-before-crunch-talks-with-capitals-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/eu-parliament-votes-to-harden-mercosur-safeguards-before-crunch-talks-with-capitals-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Parliament votes to harden Mercosur safeguards before crunch talks with capitals \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A lightning round of talks with EU countries is expected Wednesday afternoon to finalize a common position on the additional instrument. The talks are expected to be prickly, given the time pressure and the fact that the Council of the EU, which represents governments, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/press\/press-releases\/2025\/11\/19\/eu-mercosur-council-backs-regulation-implementing-the-safeguards-for-agricultural-products\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">adopted the original Commission proposal<\/a> as its position.<\/p>\n<p>Final haggling over the agreement with Mercosur \u2014 which groups Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay \u2014 may run into a summit of European leaders being held in Brussels on Thursday and Friday of this week. <\/p>\n<p>Overall, lawmakers backed lower thresholds for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-parliament-votes-to-harden-mercosur-safeguards-before-crunch-talks-with-capitals\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lightning round of talks with EU countries is expected Wednesday afternoon to finalize a common position on the additional instrument. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe-gcc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}