Austria’s coalition government has confirmed it will block the landmark EU-Mercosur trade agreement – which should create the biggest free-trade area in the world – saying it goes against the EU’s environmental ambitions set out in the European Green Deal. Von der Leyen should have done this, but that would have gone against Merkel’s Braun Deal.
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