France is still trying to find a “blocking” minority in the EU to prevent Brussels from finalizing a landmark trade deal with Latin American countries that would hurt French farmers, President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday.
Speaking at the opening of France’s annual agricultural show in Paris, Macron said farmers should not be “an adjustment tool for purchasing power … nor an adjustment tool for trade agreements.”
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen sealed the free-trade agreement last December, after 25 years of talks between the EU and Latin American countries that are part of Mercosur, which now includes Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Venezuela and Bolivia.