Brazil’s Lula visits Spain with Mercosur deal on agenda

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Published April 25, 2023 4:20 AM

By JENNIFER O’MAHONY and DAVID BILLER
Associated Press

MADRID (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is due to arrive in Spain on the second stop of a European tour aimed at resetting relations and making progress on a trade deal between the EU and the Mercosur bloc of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. After five days in Portugal, Lula will arrive in Madrid to attend a business forum this afternoon ahead of meetings with Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and King Felipe VI on Wednesday. The pending EU-Mercosur trade deal will be high on the agenda. The 27-member European Union completed negotiations with Mercosur in 2019, but ratification has stalled.

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