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00:00There is a Mercosurian-European agreement. When you see the video or some photo,
00:04the faces of well-known presidents appear. Our president is Javier Milet,
00:09Lula, the Calle Pau of Uruguay, the tallest one is Santiago Peña,
00:12the president of the Paraguayan Republic.
00:15And the blonde lady is Ursula von der Leyen,
00:19who is president of the European Commission.
00:21President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
00:25She said, it's a historical milestone.
00:28The truth is that it is the largest free trade agreement in the world,
00:32considering the amount of population of each of the blocks.
00:36What will it mean in the day-to-day?
00:37There is a free trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Union.
00:41Well, what does it mean in the day-to-day, in trade, for the PYME, for the importer, for everything?
00:46Well, let's see, the fine detail is yet to be known.
00:49What I can tell you is that Europe needs our energy.
00:53But how the energy, if we are far away,
00:55if from here to there you have to cross the entire Atlantic Ocean.
00:58Well, the fact that Russia has cut gas shipments,
01:02because gas passes through Ukraine, has complicated the situation in Europe.
01:05For example, there are German factories that are working on coal,
01:09when they always worked on gas, which is a more efficient,
01:13cleaner, even more economical energy at a certain point.
01:17And now, well, an important scenario opens up with respect to energy export,
01:20for example, of GNL.
01:22It will be an important item, it will be energy, energy export, and for Mercosur.
01:26Yes, exactly, and let's see what we can buy from Europe.
01:29Foods, I don't know, because they are much more expensive in Europe than here,
01:33or at least it is more expensive to produce them.
01:36We will finally see what the fine detail is.
01:38For me, the important fact is that,
01:41remember that recently there was a meeting of the G20 in Brazil,
01:45and that two presidents of European countries landed in the Argentine Republic.
01:49Giorgia Meloni from Italy and Emmanuel Macron from France.
01:53Some people were left with the anecdotal fact that Meloni was on the political line of my law.
01:58The fact is that, for me, the substantial economic data is that Macron came to oppose this agreement.
02:04That is, the president of the French Republic,
02:07which is one of the most important countries, of course, of the European Economic Union,
02:13came to oppose this agreement, came to say that he was the truth,
02:16that he did not agree, that it did not seem to him, that it was not favorable for France.
02:21However, despite Macron's opposition, the Mercosur-EU agreement was signed.
02:27The fine detail, the detail, the day-to-day,
02:31I don't know, for example, when you go to Europe,
02:34and there is a short row that says,
02:36residents, European Union, United States, China,
02:39and the other says, others?
02:41Well, we go for others, I say, who does not have a European citizenship,
02:45you go for others, you take a little longer,
02:48but maybe from this agreement you will be able to go for a row that says,
02:53citizens of the European Union, China, United States, Mercosur.
02:57But in the end, they all end up being the same row at some point.
03:00Well, or they will put us aside.
03:03Exclusivity does not cease to be exclusive.
03:05Or they will put us aside and there will be people from immigration in the other ten and in ours one.
03:08I don't know.
03:09Ah, well, we'll see.
03:10But, I mean, it could be some ease for travel.
03:13There is no difficulty in traveling to Europe,
03:15but there is this specific issue.
03:17Is it a historical agreement?
03:18Yes, it is a historical agreement.
03:19Ten years ago, no one would have given two euros for this agreement,
03:23no one would have believed that this would really have worked,
03:27and it is working.
03:28Whether it is positive or not, I would tell you, in general terms,
03:32the economies of the European Union and South America,
03:37or of Mercosur, to be more precise,
03:39are more complementary than, for example,
03:43the Argentine economy with that of the United States.
03:46The Argentine economy and that of the United States are relatively competitive,
03:49I say relatively because the United States is a giant,
03:52it is a quarter of the world GDP, and we are very far from that.
03:55But we have similar industries.
03:57We have hydrology, we have automobiles,
03:59we have cattle production, we have soy, wheat production.
04:03And at the time of an agreement, is something complementary useful?
04:07I don't know what can be useful to make a free trade agreement with the United States,
04:10which is what President Javier Milley said,
04:12because they are more competitive than complementary economies.
04:15With the European Union, Argentina in particular,
04:18which is what interests us the most,
04:19but also the rest of the Latin American countries,
04:21has a slightly more complementary economy.
04:24We have a lot of energy production,
04:28of gas molecules, which is what can travel,
04:31because hydroelectric energy cannot travel to Europe.
04:35We have a lot of that,
04:37we have a lot of grain food on a large scale,
04:41and Europe not so much.
04:42And then, yes, we have some other things
04:44in which we are competitive,
04:46but it can be an interesting agreement.
04:48And this achievement, if it ends up being an achievement,
04:50is it something positive?
04:51It is an achievement of several governments that have been working on it,
04:53it is an achievement of the Chancellery.
04:55It is a joint achievement.
04:57To be honest,
04:59the first big boost to this was during the government of Mauricio Macri.
05:02During the government of Mauricio Macri,
05:04the first big boost for this to happen.
05:06I mean, it worked for a long time.
05:08Yes, the context before was not favorable,
05:10the government of Macri was given a lot of momentum.
05:13I don't know if you remember the anecdote
05:15that Jorge Fori cried and everyone laughed
05:18because Fori said,
05:20I'm excited, we got something historical.
05:23After this, the only thing left is to recover the Malvinas.
05:26Look for the video, it's great.
05:28If you find it, it would be good to put it.
05:30And some people said, hey, it's not much.
05:33It's for so much.
05:35Do you think you can compare this with Malvinas?
05:37Well, it seems that at the end,
05:39Jorge Fori, beyond the occasional mockery of the moment,
05:42had some reason.
05:44It is a historical agreement.
05:46It is not the silver bullet of anything,
05:48it is not that it does not put food on the table
05:50immediately tomorrow or in two years,
05:52but it is an agreement.
05:54It is a long-term agreement.
05:56Yes, these agreements are always long-term,
05:58otherwise they are not fulfilled.
06:00And clearly, it is an important agreement.
06:02Argentina has its main investors
06:05are companies from the United States,
06:07from Europe, from Chile, from Brazil.
06:10There are many European companies
06:12that invest in Argentina.
06:14And I give you a case.
06:16Can this be facilities for European companies?
06:18It can be.
06:20It also depends on how the national economy works.
06:22For example, the European company,
06:24which is owned by Desur,
06:26which is an electric distributor,
06:28are Italian,
06:31they stayed because of the tariffs,
06:33not because of the signing
06:35of the Mercosur-European agreement.
06:37But in some way,
06:39the Mercosur-European agreement
06:41provides a very favorable framework.
06:43European investments have legal security
06:45in Argentina,
06:47since the legal umbrella
06:49of the 90s,
06:51where you, for example,
06:53can be the owner of a company
06:55of public services here
06:57and that your capital is in Europe
06:59And at the regional level,
07:01how is this agreement regulated?
07:03I mean, within the Mercosur itself.
07:05It is a block agreement
07:07for the countries of the European Union,
07:09for the European Economic Union in general.
07:11The conditions are the same
07:13in all countries.
07:15Interesting fact.
07:17Bolivia is added.
07:19Mercosur is Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay.
07:21Mercosur is Bolivia.
07:23I don't see it in photos or videos,
07:25but Luis Arce is there,
07:27the multicultural republic
07:29or pluricultural of Bolivia.
07:31That's the new name.
07:33No, there is Calle Pou,
07:35Lula, Peña.
07:37But Bolivia is there.
07:39And Milei, in the strange photo.
07:41You clearly identify Calle Pou by height.
07:43Milei is our president, we know him.
07:45We know Lula.
07:47By height we identify him, yes.
07:49And he is the smallest.
07:51Santi Peña, as they call him.
07:53Santi is the tallest.
07:55Who is the blonde lady?
07:57The blonde lady is
07:59Ursula von der Leyen.
08:01She is the representative
08:03of the European Economic Community.
08:05It is a very important agreement
08:07and I think
08:09that in the long term
08:11it will be favorable.
08:13H&M, the big brand.
08:15It would be good.
08:17Yes.
08:19For example, Sara Estacas.
08:21Sara is
08:23the most famous Spanish woman
08:25of Amancio Peña.
08:27She has Sara, Massimo Dutti,
08:29Leftis.
08:31Leftis is good.
08:33Leftis is the B side of Sara.
08:35And good things, yes.
08:37And very cheap.
08:39Ideal to give things to the family
08:41that you don't appreciate so much.
08:43You know, when you see this label
08:45you know how much I appreciate it.
08:47By the way, I send you the message.
08:49But for example, it would be good.
08:51Sara is in Chile.
08:53It would be good if Sara,
08:55who is present in the country,
08:57if from this agreement
08:59the same pants that she charges you
09:0130 euros, she doesn't charge you 90.
09:03Like I had to pay the other day.
09:05Lino bag, 360 thousand pesos.
09:07No, no.
09:09Sara, take it back.
09:11Sara, this in the third
09:13discounts after January 7
09:15is 50 to 60 euros.
09:17Don't charge me 360.
09:19The same bag.
09:21Made in Pakistan.
09:23All the same.
09:25The same bag in another country.
09:27It can't be more than 100 dollars.
09:29When you see the label where it is made,
09:31Pakistan, Bangladesh,
09:33Indonesia.
09:35And if you see PCR,
09:37do you know what it means?
09:39People's Republic of China.
09:41For the initials, for the acronym in English.
09:43Made in PCR.
09:45At one time it was produced here.
09:47Do you know that this brand was made in Sastreria?
09:49Here in Argentina.
09:51No, no. The industry is competitive here.
09:53What is not competitive are the prices.
09:55This is the information that comes
09:57from Uruguay.
09:59A very important historical agreement that Lucio marked us.