En un evento histórico, el presidente Milei asumió la presidencia pro tempore del MERCOSUR, recibiendo el cargo del presidente uruguayo Lacalle Pou. Durante su discurso, Milei criticó duramente al bloque regional, calificándolo como un obstáculo para el desarrollo económico de los países miembros. Este evento coincide con la firma de un acuerdo de libre comercio entre MERCOSUR y la Unión Europea, a pesar de la resistencia de países proteccionistas como Francia e Italia.
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00:00The Mercosur is a historical milestone, there is an agreement between the Mercosur and the European Union
00:05with some dissidence of the president, which we will now review.
00:09This happened at this time, Milley received by the chancellor,
00:14with a very hard speech, that of Milley, but with a historical fact that we are now going to review.
00:18Exactly, let's see, Milley said that the Mercosur is a prison,
00:23a choice for the economic development of the country and of all the member countries that are part of the Mercosur,
00:29and he said it in this speech.
00:31The president is speaking live now, attention.
00:33Yes, he is assuming the presidency of the Mercosur by the Uruguayan president.
00:42There we are, Calle Pou, he gives him a hand, he welcomes him, and now Milley speaks,
00:47no longer as one more president, but as president of the Mercosur, the regional economic bloc.
00:56Let's see, Cata.
00:57There, well, end of the broadcast, but we were reviewing a little of the things that Milley said,
01:02which were very well received precisely by Calle Pou,
01:04which we are seeing there in these images, which is the Uruguayan president,
01:08who is encouraging, because he was also at this summit,
01:11the new one, the one who is going to assume in Uruguay, who is Yamandu Orsi,
01:15but Calle Pou had been complaining in solitude in the Mercosur of something that Milley proposed today.
01:21He wanted free trade for the member countries of the Mercosur,
01:25and the rest of his regional partners resisted.
01:28So when he heard it, and Milley saying, it's a choice, it's an obstacle,
01:33we have to flexibilize, it's not that we are leaving the Mercosur,
01:36but what we have to allow is, in Creole,
01:39that all member countries can have free trade treaties,
01:42he wants free trade with the United States, he wants to propose other things,
01:46Calle Pou obviously celebrated all this,
01:49that our Argentinean president was saying in Uruguay,
01:52and on the other hand, this historical agreement was signed,
01:55which had resistance from more protectionist countries,
01:58such as France and Italy, to make this free trade between Europe,
02:05the European Union and the Mercosur.
02:07Cata, let me listen to the president,
02:09I'll give you Winocur to provide more data.
02:11This happened just minutes ago, there in Montevideo.
02:16I am here today as president, I would like to speak mainly as an economist.
02:21And take advantage of the day of the date,
02:23having been fulfilled for more than 30 years since its foundation,
02:27to remember the mission of the origin of the Mercosur,
02:30and to evaluate together whether it has been or not up to its original prognosis.
02:36Because institutions must not be evaluated for their intentions,
02:40but for their results.
02:43Unfortunately, simultaneously and as a result of the ideas prevailing at the time,
02:49to our wrong judgments,
02:51a system of common external arancel was proposed to try to protect the industry of our countries,
02:56believing that this would bring a benefit to our citizens.
03:00Unfortunately, the path to hell is paved with good intentions,
03:05and as Professor Huerta de Soto has once pointed out,
03:09whenever the State intervenes, it generates a worse result than it had before it intervened.
03:15Therefore, it is not a surprise for a liberal like me,
03:18that the result of these measures has been the opposite of what was intended.
03:23Consolidating ourselves in a common block, not only made us grow, but also harmed us.
03:30While neighbors like Chile and Peru opened up to the world
03:34and established trade agreements with the protagonists of global trade,
03:38we locked ourselves in our own cage,
03:41taking more than 20 years to close an agreement with which we celebrate today,
03:46which is still far from being a reality.
03:49It cannot attract attention, then,
03:51that the economies of our neighbors have grown so much more than ours.
03:55While they have a free trade agreement with more than 20 countries,
03:59we have similar treaties only with the rest of South America, Egypt and Israel.
04:04Although the responsibility of the Argentine failure falls mostly...
04:08The President is speaking in a tough speech.
04:11What has strongly bounced is this idea that the President has raised,
04:15that the regional block is a cliff.
04:18Two concepts to take into account.
04:20Let's see how that falls.
04:21First, there was, as far as we could see, no kind of greeting with Lula da Silva.
04:26Miley arrived for the family photo.
04:29He was at the other end with regards to Lula.
04:32And then, when one reviews the speech, what Miley says,
04:35which we have seen in Criollo, is,
04:36all this about Mercosur is very nice,
04:38how nice that we are together,
04:40but it did not work at all,
04:42we grew below the rest of the countries of the region,
04:44when the United States tried to make an agreement with us,
04:47we, for ideological reasons, discarded it,
04:50we are trading much less of the world,
04:52and we have to review this of having a common arancel.
04:54Basically, Miley's proposal is, in practice,
04:57that Mercosur should cease to exist as we know it now.
05:02Yes, but he does not want to leave.
05:03Without leaving.
05:04Of course, it is very difficult to break,
05:06it is very complicated to break,
05:08but what he is proposing, in practice,
05:10is that it ceases to work the way it was working.
05:13A detail to take into account,
05:15that I am already live with Gustavo Descalzi,
05:17this photo of Pou Street with Orsi next to it,
05:19is a photo...
05:20That we would like to have here in Argentina.
05:22Of course, you envied him a lot.
05:23Totally.
05:24Because the levels of institutionality they present are very high.
05:27They are here just to review them.