{"id":440019,"date":"2025-11-14T11:47:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/11\/14\/mercosur-nuove-grane-per-von-der-leyen-chieste-verifiche-di-compatibilita-alla-corte-di-giustizia-ue\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T12:21:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T11:21:52","slug":"mercosur-new-headache-for-von-der-leyen-as-eu-court-of-justice-asked-to-verify-compatibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/11\/14\/mercosur-new-headache-for-von-der-leyen-as-eu-court-of-justice-asked-to-verify-compatibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercosur: new headache for von der Leyen as EU Court of Justice asked to verify compatibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – A new chapter in the “Mercosur saga:” there is now a request to halt <\/strong>the free trade agreement between the European Union and the South American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay) to verify its legal compatibility with the EU treaties<\/strong>. With a proposed motion for resolution<\/a>, 145 MEPs from different parties are calling for a referral to the EU Court of Justice, so that the judges in Luxembourg can give their opinion on the European Commission’s actions. <\/p>\n

What is worrying is that the splitting of the EU-Mercosur agreement into an EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement (EMPA) and an Interim Trade Agreement (ITA) could be “incompatible” with Article 218 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union<\/a>. There is also concern that the rebalancing mechanism provided for in the EU-Mercosur agreement may “at least be incompatible” with Articles 11, 168, 169, and 191 of the same treaty. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Hence, the request under Article 117 of the Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament<\/a> to involve the EU Court of Justice. MEPs make use of the instrument whereby “at any time <\/strong>before Parliament votes on a request for consent or opinion, the committee responsible or at least one-tenth of Parliament\u2019s component Members may propose that Parliament seek an opinion from the Court of Justice on the compatibility of an international agreement with the Treaties.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This is a significant element of the political action initiated by the Greens and the Left<\/strong>, and supported by members from across the political spectrum. The 145 signatories of the motion belong to the Populars (EPP), Socialist (S&D), and Liberal (RE)<\/strong> groups. It is not a vote of censure against Mercosur, but a check on compatibility with the treaties. <\/p>\n

The Chamber could vote on the motion as early as the plenary session at the end of the month (24-27 November), in a vote that could be even riskier for the European Commission and its president, Ursula von der Leyen, than the votes of no-confidence related to the same trade agreement<\/a>, which in the end, were easily overcome<\/a>: if the Chamber were to ask the EU Court of Justice for the relevant checks, Mercosur would be effectively blocked and suspended until the judges<\/strong> pronouncement. <\/p>\n

Whatever the outcome for von der Leyen, the political reality is that she faces a new crossfire over a trade agreement she considers strategic<\/a>, and even within her own party, the EPP, there are doubts. Meanwhile, Cristina Guarda<\/strong>, Green MEP and signatory of the motion, rejoices: “The motion required 72 signatures, we collected many more,” she said. Not only that: “The signatories are MEPs from 21 different nationalities,” she emphasised, underlining how concerns about the EU-Mercosur agreement are widespread. “We are aiming for a vote in plenary on 24 November.<\/strong>“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Initiative of 145 MEPs from the EPP, S&D, RE, Greens and The Left to verify the compatibility of the free trade agreement with the EU Treaties. Watch: “We aim for a vote in plenary on 24 November”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":440011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707],"tags":[31262,26279,26442,28289,25755,26632,26864],"class_list":["post-440019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-trade-en","tag-court-of-justice-en","tag-cristina-guarda-en","tag-news-parliament-en","tag-mercosur-en","tag-accordi-commerciali-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440020,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440019\/revisions\/440020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}