A majority of European Union countries gave the go-ahead on Friday for the bloc to sign the Mercosur free trade deal with Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay after decades of negotiations.
At a meeting of representatives from the 27 EU countries in Brussels, a sufficient number of participants agreed to the planned signing of the deal, diplomatic sources said.
The new free-trade zone, with more than 700 million inhabitants, will be the largest of its kind in the world, according to the…
EU agrees to ‘world’s largest’ free-trade zone with Mercosur pact after 25 years
