Farmers protest in Brussels against EU-Mercosur trade deal

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Updated: 05/09/2025 - 10:02 GMT+2

A group of farmers from crossed Europe staged a protestation extracurricular nan European Parliament connected Thursday, voicing their guidance to nan EU-Mercosur waste and acquisition woody approved earlier this week.

The deal, agreed successful December 2024, lowers tariffs and strengthens waste and acquisition ties pinch Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Opponents pass it will flood nan EU marketplace pinch cheaper imports, undermining European agriculture.

Dutch dairy husbandman Roos Saat told The Associated Press that young farmers spot their early astatine risk. “This benignant of waste and acquisition woody makes it little and little clear,” she said.

Despite nan Commission’s approval, nan pact still needs ratification from EU countries to beryllium implemented, keeping nan conflict acold from over.