{"id":1215,"date":"2026-02-27T18:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:11:06","slug":"the-european-commission-will-implement-the-mercosur-deal-before-eu-court-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/the-european-commission-will-implement-the-mercosur-deal-before-eu-court-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"The European Commission Will Implement the Mercosur Deal Before EU Court Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The move by the <strong>European Commission<\/strong>, announced after the ratification of the agreement by Argentina and Uruguay on Thursday, comes despite strong opposition from France.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe Commission will now proceed with provisional application,\u201d von der Leyen announced, while emphasizing that the agreement \u201ccan only be fully completed once the European Parliament gives its consent.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>French Minister of Agriculture, <strong>Annie Genevard<\/strong>, reacted on Friday saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It is a decision that makes me sad. It does not align with the respect that should be shown to the decision of the European Parliament.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She condemned the provisional application as <em><strong>\u201cvery detrimental to the functioning of our institutions and, above all, to the spirit of our European institutions.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU Commission will provisionally implement the Mercosur deal despite French opposition, awaiting the European Court&#8217;s ruling and Parliament\u2019s final consent, sparking institutional tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":1216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[1099,902,485,1098,473],"nfg_topic":[134],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anie-genevard","tag-european-commission","tag-european-parliament","tag-mercosur","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","nfg_topic-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1217,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions\/1217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}