'Unpleasant surprise': French president criticizes EU move to apply Mercosur trade deal Related news

Mihaela Chircă

BRUSSELS French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday criticized the EU's decision to provisionally apply its trade agreement with the South American bloc Mercosur, calling it an "unpleasant surprise" and vowing to be "uncompromising" in defending French agricultural interests. Macron said he would "never support an agreement that is lax on what we import and harsh on what we produce at home," during a joint press conference with Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob in Paris, broadcaster BFMTV

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