Catch 22

European Union Comment and Analysis Democracy Trade Rebuttals EU financial risk and liabilities

In December 2025, Ursula von der Leyen had her summer clothes packed for a trip to Brazil. After twenty plus years the EU Mercosur (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay) FTA had at last been agreed. Except, it wasn't. In the weird world of the EU, the old saying "There's many a slip twixt cup and lip" comes into its own. Members of the EU,...