Brazil warns that if the EU does not sign now with Mercosur, "there will be no more agreement"

"I already warned that, if not now, Brazil will make no more agreements (with the EU) while I am president," declared Lula at the conclusion of a meeting with his cabinet members, in which he warned that if it is not signed "now," he will be "tough" with the European bloc. Lula insisted that his "expectation" is that the agreement with the European bloc will be signed next Saturday, within the framework of the biannual summit of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), which will be held in the city of Foz do Iguaçu, in southern Brazil. However, he said that "now France and Italy do not want" it, that the French president, Emmanuel Macron, "does not want it because of his farmers" and the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, "now opposes it, who knows why." According to Lula, "the concrete fact is that in Mercosur we have worked a lot to accept that agreement" and to convey the idea that, when there is a president in the United States (Donald Trump) who strengthens unilateralism, ...