Fire in the Amazon: the European Council also …

Jair Bolsonaro adds releases to Europe due to the fire situation in the Amazon. The President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, has questioned the agreement between the European Union and Mercosur, what Emmanuel Macron had mentioned.

"We support the EU-Mercosur agreement, which also involves climate protection, but it is difficult to imagine a harmonious ratification by the European countries while the Brazilian president allows the destruction of the green spaces of the planet ", said Tusk at a brief press conference. before the beginning of the G7 summit in Biarritz, in accordance with the words of the President of the French Republic.

The Polish politician, who will step down as president of the European Council in December, said images of the burning Amazonian forest "have become another depressing sign of our time". He added that the EU is willing to grant financial aid to Brazil to fight fires and that "it is about being or not being.

Macron referred to the ecological disaster of the Amazon as one of the central themes of the G7 summit (the former G8 since the exclusion of Russia due to the annexation of Crimea) and today called for the "mobilization of all powers" to "preserve this treasure of biodiversity. "

The French president felt that "we must respond to the call of the forests", defined the Amazon as "our common good" and that "we will act therefore",

Besides France, Ireland was another EU country that had joined the warning to Bolsonaro so that it meets its environmental commitments. he wanted the negotiations between the two blocs to progress. At the same time, Finland is badyzing the cessation of imports of Brazilian meat.

The National Institute of Space Research (Inpe) of Brazil estimates at 75,300 the number of fires from 1 January to 21 August, representing an increase of 84% over the same period of time. ;last year. The epidemics have already reached Paraguay, Peru and Bolivia, and the smoke has reached Argentina in the last few hours. It is estimated that about 500,000 hectares have burned in the past two weeks.