German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stood alongside Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Hanover on Sunday to celebrate what both men cast as a milestone for open trade – the long-awaited agreement between the European Union and the Mercosur bloc.
Opening a major industrial trade fair, Merz praised Brazil as a strategic partner in an increasingly fragmented world, while Lula framed the pact as a clear answer to rising protectionism.
