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"Mr President, the priorities of this House in trade negotiations are clear. Firstly, we want a successful multilateral round. Secondly, we want successful biregional arrangements and as a fall-back – but only as a fall-back – we look to improve bilateral arrangements.
I have to confess that when I first heard about the priority given to the Brazil strategic partnership agreement, I felt we were rewarding a country that has been one of our more awkward partners in the multilateral negotiations in the Doha Round. I also felt it would undermine Mercosur, where, without Brazil, there is no Mercosur. However, having heard the Council this morning, having spoken to my Portuguese colleagues, I am convinced that there is a possibility that a successful strategic partnership agreement with Brazil can make it easier in the Doha Round if we develop understanding between ourselves and a key Doha player.
It can make it easier to get a Mercosur agreement if we find solutions to some of our more intricate economic challenges and of course a good agreement with Brazil would signal to them that we support their domestic priority of tackling social exclusion and poverty. So I am not entirely convinced, but I am more convinced that an agreement between the EU and Brazil is now a more desirable objective than it was a few weeks ago."@en1
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