00:00The European Parliament has voted to refer the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement to the EU Court of Justice on Wednesday.
00:08The move significantly delays the deal and could even potentially derail its final approval.
00:13The vote, as expected, was tight, with 334 MEPs voting in favor of the referral, 324 against, and 11 abstaining from the vote.
00:24The European Commission could still provisionally apply the deal, provided the move was endorsed by Member States.
00:32It would be the first time, if the Commission decides to apply for a provisional application of this agreement,
00:41knowing that it comes just a few hours after the vote against an application short-term of the Mercosur Agreement by the Parliament,
00:51that would be very difficult to accept from the Parliament's perspective that the Commission does such a move.
01:00They have the right to do so, but politically speaking, that would be difficult to accept for us.
01:06The EU-Mercosur Agreement was signed on the 17th of January and is set to create a free trade area of over 700 million people.
01:15It's controversial across Europe and several countries like France and Poland have steadfastly opposed it.
01:20The agreement's advocates consider it a major opportunity for European industries and a way to bolster the bloc's geostrategic position,
01:28especially at a time of constant clashes with their biggest and formerly most reliable partner, the United States.
01:35The referral to the top EU courts suspends the approval procedure in the European Parliament,
01:40which was set for a final vote in the coming months.
01:43A court ruling could take more than a year to be issued, and in the interim, the deal's approval will be frozen.
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