The European Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht. / EFE
The speed of various Latin American governments for offering trading partner Russia has not sit well in Brussels. The European Commission shall provide the representatives of “a group of countries” in the Americas disagreed with the quick reaction to the Russian sanctions on agricultural products from the EU, USA, Australia, Canada and Norway and summon them to “reconsider” budding contracts with “unreliable” partner like Moscow, according to EU sources confirmed Monday.
With this move, the EU seeks to give a warning for a movement that considered loyal, although Twenty-eight are not intended to disturb their good diplomatic and trade relations with countries like Brazil or Argentina.
“We can understand that producers and exporters, private companies ultimately seek new opportunities. What we do not share is that they have Governments behind “they stressed. These same sources stress that the EU will not interfere in private contracts, but “regret” the attitude of this group of countries, warning of poor integrity of Moscow as a trading partner. “An economic relationship sacrifice long-term benefits in the short term.”
That attitude Brussels on Monday it received another good sign. In this case, of Buenos Aires, “Argentina will create the conditions for the private sector to boost the state can meet the demand of the Russian market,” said the chief of staff of the Argentine Government, Jorge Capitanich, reported Efe <. / p>
With the signing of these trade agreements, Russia’s fifth largest importer of food in the world seeks to fill some of the gaps that its unilateral rupture with the EU and the USA might leave on their domestic market. Only in 2013, purchases of European foods, now vetoed totaled 5.252 million euros.
In Brussels had already laid especially bad ambassadors of Argentina, Chile, Ecuador and Uruguay in Moscow to meet with the head of the Department of Agriculture and Livestock Inspection Russian Sergey Dankvert, just hours after the Kremlin ENACTED ban on imports
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Despite discomfort, the EU executive will opt for a complaint of low profile. In the coming days, European diplomats protest move to their Latin American counterparts and, for the moment, the notice does not transcend the political sphere. The EU is considering channeling the message through the delegations of these countries to the EU institutions or through the representation offices of the European Commission in Latin American capitals.
The Community dissatisfaction with the efforts of several governments Latin with Moscow comes at a turning point in the negotiations for the signing of a free trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur, the regional bloc which includes Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela time. After almost two decades of talks, Latin American countries expect a European proposal and the coming months, with the arrival of a new Commission in Brussels, presumed key. Although the EU executive prefers not to relate the EU upset with the potential agreement with Mercosur, several other European officials on Monday her attitude contrasted with the “manifest loyalty” of countries like Australia, Canada and Norway, which have taken over sanctions Russia.
Brussels also deals with internal unrest, agricultural producers. There are already scheduled a meeting to address the issue, this Thursday, but the Commissioner for Agriculture, Dacian Ciolos said Monday that, for now, “support measures” will be advanced producers of peaches and nectarines, which the Russian veto add the effects of “bad weather”.
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