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Comment: Mercosur deal approval sees EU executive between a rock and a hard place

By Joanna Sopinska
  • 15 Mar 2021 09:32
  • 15 Mar 2021 09:32
When you've been haggling over a deal for more than two decades, the temptation is fierce to use whatever tactics you can to get over the line and stop it collapsing. So it goes for the European Commission over the EU-Mercosur free-trade agreement.
With the deal finally in its closing stages after

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Joanna Sopinska

Senior Correspondent


Joanna covers trade in Brussels. Formerly trade editor of EU Trade Insights, she has many years' experience reporting on trade, investment policy and foreign affairs. Before that, she spent nine years at Europolitics news agency writing on trade, agriculture policy and foreign affairs. Before moving to Brussels in 2006, Joanna worked as an analyst at the Polish Institute of International Relations (PISM) in Warsaw.

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