Brussels and Berlin insisted Monday the EU's vast proposed trade deal with South American bloc Mercosur must get over the finish line by year end – despite a last-ditch French push to derail its signing.
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen is planning to go to Brazil on Saturday to sign the agreement which, 20 years in the making, would create the world's biggest free-trade area.
First though she needs to get approval from the EU's member states – and heavyweight France made clear Sunday its conditions were not yet met.
President Emmanuel Macron has reached
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