How a Trade Deal With Europe Could Help Save Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest
15 June 2023
‘France and Austria are leading the foot-draggers on a Mercosur accord, ostensibly on environmental grounds. Their domestic beef industries may not be coincidental, says Eoin Drea, senior researcher at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies. “There’s a lot of rhetoric on the Amazon, but also big doses of protectionism,” he says.’