"Mercosur lives a unique moment in its history," agreed Macri and Piñera – Telam

President Mauricio Macri and his Chilean counterpart, Sebastián Piñera, agreed today that "Mercosur is living a unique moment in its history" after the agreement concluded with the European Union (EU) by participating at a symposium at the Santa Fe Constitution Museum, organized by the Libertad Foundation.

The strong affinity between Macri and Piñera was expressed in each of the issues discussed: they celebrated with similar words the agreement signed by Mercosur with the EU and condemned "populism" with the same emphasis they put on the exaltation of the virtues of freedom. trade; They also called for a "democratic solution" to free Venezuela from a "dictatorship".

After a welcome ceremony by Mayor José Corral, Gerardo Bongiovanni, president of the Libertad Foundation, asked the two presidents to reflect on what he called "a new Mercosur".

Macri said, in this sense, "we are living a unique moment in the history of Mercosur, which started with a lot of momentum, and then was lost, but now, the affinities existing between the presidents have generated a space for dialogue, work, understanding, aligned in an Argentina that wants to return to the world ".

Still on the same line, he added that "Chile is a reference because it has concluded free trade agreements with 80 or 90% of the planet, while we have only 10%, which has until now only slightly less isolated than Nigeria and Sudan. "