PARIS (Reuters) -Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday urged his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron to support a long-delayed trade deal between the European Union and the South American bloc Mercosur.
“I will not leave the Mercosur presidency without having concluded the trade deal,” Lula told a press conference alongside Macron in Paris, referring to the pro-tempore presidency of the bloc he holds for the second half of 2025.
(Reporting by Gabriel Araujo in Sao Paulo; editing by Philippa Fletcher)
