Ireland To Vote Against EU-Mercosur Trade Deal

Ireland said Thursday that it would vote against the European Union’s trade deal with the South American bloc Mercosur, days before EU states are due to vote on the treaty.

“The government’s position on Mercosur has always been clear: we did not support the deal in the form in which it was presented,” Ireland’s deputy prime minister, Simon Harris, said in a statement sent to AFP ahead of…