A local MEP says he’s less confident the Mercosur deal will be rejected after Donald Trump’s actions over the weekend.
The US president warned levies will be placed on goods from countries who want to block his takeover of Greenland – until he secures a deal to buy the arctic island from Denmark.
He says he'll impose 10-per cent tariffs on products imported from the UK and seven other European countries from February the 1st.
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It throws the EU-US trade deal, agreed last July, into doubt.
Ciaran Mullooly opposes a separate trade agreement between the EU and four south American countries – he says he’s concerned at the weekend’s developments:
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