{"id":209521,"date":"2026-02-08T00:22:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T00:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=209521"},"modified":"2026-02-08T00:22:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T00:22:45","slug":"eu-and-mercosur-sign-landmark-free-trade-deal-after-25-years-of-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=209521","title":{"rendered":"EU and Mercosur sign landmark free trade deal after 25 years of negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union and the Mercosur bloc of South American countries signed on Saturday signed a free trade deal that follows a quarter-century of careful negotiations. France still remains opposed to the trade agreement, with the country&#8217;s powerful agricultural lobby warning it could damage local farmers&#8217; livelihoods&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20260117-eu-and-mercosur-sign-landmark-free-trade-deal-after-25-years-of-negotiations\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union and the Mercosur bloc of South American countries signed on Saturday signed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209521-eu-and-mercosur-sign-landmark-free-trade-deal-after-25-years-of-negotiations.jpg",1024,576,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209521-eu-and-mercosur-sign-landmark-free-trade-deal-after-25-years-of-negotiations-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209521-eu-and-mercosur-sign-landmark-free-trade-deal-after-25-years-of-negotiations-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209521-eu-and-mercosur-sign-landmark-free-trade-deal-after-25-years-of-negotiations-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209521-eu-and-mercosur-sign-landmark-free-trade-deal-after-25-years-of-negotiations.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209521-eu-and-mercosur-sign-landmark-free-trade-deal-after-25-years-of-negotiations.jpg",1024,576,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209521-eu-and-mercosur-sign-landmark-free-trade-deal-after-25-years-of-negotiations.jpg",1024,576,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209521-eu-and-mercosur-sign-landmark-free-trade-deal-after-25-years-of-negotiations.jpg",1024,576,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209521-eu-and-mercosur-sign-landmark-free-trade-deal-after-25-years-of-negotiations-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209521-eu-and-mercosur-sign-landmark-free-trade-deal-after-25-years-of-negotiations-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}