French President Emmanuel Macron has long been opposed to the planned free trade agreement between the EU and the South American economic alliance Mercosur. Macron is one of the harshest critics of the treaty in the EU.
He criticizes the fact that European farmers and companies have to adhere to strict guidelines to reduce carbon emissions, while in the future tariffs will be lifted on products from South America that are not manufactured according to the same rules. French farmers in particular have expressed their dissatisfaction with the planned trade agreement in the past.