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Il partenariato UE-Mercosur prenderà il via?

L'accordo di partenariato UE-Mercosur prevede la creazione della più grande zona di libero scambio al mondo. Ci sono voluti 25 anni per raggiungere un accordo che ora è pronto per la ratifica. Tuttavia, il processo messo in atto dalla Commissione europea è contestato da diversi settori.

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00:00La EU-Mercosur partnership agreement foresees the creation of the world's largest free trade zone.
00:20It took 25 years to reach an agreement that is now on the table for ratification.
00:26However, the process that the European Commission has put in place is being challenged by several sectors.
00:33There are also a few member states highly skeptical of the deal, like we will reveal in this EU Decoded.
00:41Mercosur is a South American trade bloc comprised of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.
00:48The agreement with the EU will create a market of 780 million consumers,
00:54representing 25% of world trade.
00:58Many European products now pay high export tariffs to the Mercosur bloc,
01:03such as cars , wine and spirits up to 35%, cheese , machinery up to 20%.
01:13With the deal, those tariffs will be eliminated or significantly reduced.
01:19Farmers, environmentalists, some groups in the European Parliament and a few member states oppose the deal.
01:26We will explore this later in the programme, but let's hear what some Europeans think.
01:31In fact, they are in competition with the French industry and its agriculture,
01:35with the South American agriculture industry.
01:39They produce with different norms, with much lower costs.
01:43You can't, on the one hand, avoid the sovereign food supply,
01:46and on the other hand, sacrifice the peasants and peasants.
01:50That this is good, because our partners on the world,
01:53with whom we have always so good trade trade,
01:55there are things not so clear as before.
01:58But I think it is also resolved, that this, let's say,
02:01that this, let's say, from the agriculture industry,
02:02the same concerns as we also have our farmers here.
02:06The quality is to ensure that the beef from Brazil and Argentina
02:10also has the European standard.
02:13Euronews reporter Peggy Corlan is an expert on trade policy.
02:17To ratify this agreement, which is both commercial and political,
02:22the European Commission proposes using two different procedures.
02:27Can you explain?
02:28The whole agreement contains parts, such as the political part,
02:31which have to be ratified by national and regional parliaments.
02:35It is a risky undertaking, because if the whole agreement is ratified by national parliaments,
02:42it means that some of them may oppose the text, as it happened already in the past,
02:47when national parliaments such as the Dutch one or the Austrian one opposed the agreement.
02:53So the European Commission has decided to separate the trade part,
02:57which falls under the exclusive competence of the EU,
03:01so that the Council will vote the text,
03:04the Member States voting by qualified majority,
03:07and the text will be also voted by the European Parliament by simple majority.
03:12This way the trade part has more chances to be implemented quickly.
03:16Which Member States are more sceptical of this agreement? Why is that?
03:21And how many do we need in terms of vote for this agreement to be approved and enter into force?
03:28France has long led the opposition to the agreement on the ground that it would create unfair competition to its farmers.
03:37But it may have changed today because the European Commission has given assurances
03:42that it would strengthen controls over imports coming from Mercosur countries
03:47and their impact on the EU markets.
03:51But Poland now is stepping up against the deal.
03:56Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he was opposed to the agreement.
04:01But it remains uncertain whether he is going to be able to gather a blocking minority against the deal.
04:08Because indeed to be signed the deal requires 15 Member States in favour of it
04:14and a blocking minority would require 5 Member States representing 35% of the population.
04:21The agricultural sector is one of the biggest critics of the agreement,
04:25which is why the European Commission recently added safeguards.
04:29Quotas that limit the import of products considered more sensitive, such as beef, poultry, sugar, rice and honey.
04:39Increased controls that may lead to the suspension of imports of a certain product
04:43if they increase by more than 10% or prices fall by more than 10%.
04:49EU pesticide and animal welfare rules will have to be followed by Mercosur countries.
04:54A 6.3 billion euros fund to help farmers affected by market crises.
05:00I'm joined now by Karel Lano, Chief Executive of the Centre for European Policy Studies.
05:07Can the EU afford not to ratify this agreement,
05:11considering that it had to make a lot of concessions in the trade deal with the US
05:17that will raise tariffs to 15%?
05:20We need to know, let's say, that the geopolitical situation since it started to negotiate 25 years ago
05:26until today has changed so much.
05:28If we go to Latin America, and we see this also for Mercosur,
05:31the most important trading partner has become China.
05:33So if we know, say, we need to be respected as a partner also, for example, with the United States,
05:40then we should respect ourselves and say we absolutely need to conclude this agreement
05:45also to become a more important trading partner for Latin America.
05:49And if we were not to do this, I mean, it will just, after this, I would say almost scandalous EU-US agreement,
05:55just put the EU in a corner of being an unreliable partner.
06:01The partnership will also create access to the essential raw materials as an alternative to China
06:08that concentrates a lot of that production. So how significant is this for the European industry, for instance?
06:14It's again an opportunity for us, I mean, to reduce, I mean, drastically this huge dependence
06:21which we have from China, which was built up without us noticing it.
06:25And now we have an opportunity to say, look, we'll do it with another region.
06:28We will just reduce our huge exposure to China and to say, look, we will make sure that Brazil can,
06:34or say Argentina or Peru can also develop their commodities or say their raw materials exports to Europe.
06:42So in addition to make a suit, the U.S. also revised an agreement with Mexico.
06:47Where should the EU look next for partners?
06:51We should, above all, as a policy, after what the U.S. has done to us, let's say in this trade agreement
06:57from the 18th of August, make sure that we find a group of countries which have the similar approach to trade
07:06and to the maintenance above all of the trading system which we have in the post-World War II order
07:12where we go for a system, underscored by the WTO, the World Trade Organization,
07:17where we apply these principles of most favoured nation clause
07:21and where we want to have, as the EU wants, as much as possible, zero tariffs.
07:26International trade is one of the arenas in which the EU projects its political and economic model.
07:33Some tout economic benefits and new markets while others warn about the risks of more concessions to multinationals,
07:41increasing risks of deforestation in Amazonia and consumer losses.
07:46Given the tariffs recently imposed by the U.S. on the bloc,
07:50some European governments most critical of the agreement with Mercosul may now change their minds.
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