The European Union has warned Jair Bolsonaro against the …

The anti-environmental policies of the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro they can boost the free trade agreement of the European Union and Mercosur, which has yet to be ratified by the European Parliament in the next two years for its final entry into force. After criticism of two bloc countries against the far-right president in the midst of the Amazon crisis,
the European Commission has officially warned that if Brazil does not fulfill its commitments against climate change It will be "complicated" to confirm the agreement.

"If that fails, I think it will complicate the ratification process," said Cecilia Malmström, European Commissioner for Trade, at a conference held at the Bruegel Studies Center in Brussels. This is the first time that the bloc makes a statement on this subject after France and Ireland
they would have warned Bolsonaro that they would block the vote on the agreement at EuroCam because they ignored "their environmental commitments".

According to Malmström, "every trade agreement we conclude has a chapter on trade and sustainable development to ensure commitments, to implement international climate conventions, such as the Paris Agreement", 2015 The EU commissioner stressed that this clause was included in the agreement announced by the Argentine government in Brussels on June 28th.

"That's why it's so important, because it's related to these four countrieswith the European Union at a time when the United States left the Paris agreement and urge others to do the same, "insisted the representative of the Commission. – Brazilian right, skeptical about climate change, during his election campaign, he threatened to pull the country out of the agreements, but then retracted and said that the US president, who considered climate change "like a Chinese story", was his reference.

Trump has decided to withdraw the United States from the treaty which sets measures for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in 2017. Bolsonaro had promised to do the same, but at the last meeting of G20 leaders, during which a Mercosur-EU agreement was discussed, the Brazilian president Emmanuel Macrón, his French counterpart, promised to respect his environmental commitments. This, before the controversy that led the two leaders after the fires in the Amazon.

Malmström considered in this respect "very disturbing" information of the last weeks on fires in the Amazon. "We have seen these reports on forest fires in the Amazon, which provide so much oxygen to the world; you have to protect it "pointed out the representative of the EU.

"I think that the EU-Mercosur agreement, which has not yet entered into force, can be part of the solution, but we must make it very clear to Brazil that we hope that you respect the commitments you made with regard to the Paris agreement, deforestation or the commitments that were made and that were taken over in the agreement with Mercosur ", concludes Malmström.