{"id":3147,"date":"2026-01-08T20:39:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/france-will-vote-against-eu-mercosur-trade-deal-macron-says\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:39:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:39:32","slug":"france-will-vote-against-eu-mercosur-trade-deal-macron-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/france-will-vote-against-eu-mercosur-trade-deal-macron-says\/","title":{"rendered":"France will vote against EU-Mercosur trade deal, Macron says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article__media\"> <picture class=\"article__media\">  <\/picture> <noscript>  <\/noscript><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">A farmer holds a French flag in front of the Arc de Triomphe monument in Paris during a protest against the Mercosur trade deal, January 8, 2026.  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">ALAIN JOCARD \/ AFP<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday, January 8, that France would vote against the European Union&#8217;s trade deal with South American bloc Mercosur, a day before member states were to cast ballots on a final go-ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">&#8220;France will vote against signing the agreement,&#8221; he said on X, calling it a deal &#8220;from another era&#8221; after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/economy\/article\/2026\/01\/08\/farmers-park-tractors-in-paris-to-protest-mercosur-trade-deal_6749198_19.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French farmers earlier in&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/international\/article\/2026\/01\/08\/france-will-vote-against-eu-mercosur-trade-deal-macron-says_6749226_4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A farmer holds a French flag in front of the Arc de Triomphe monument in Paris during a protest against the Mercosur trade deal, January 8, 2026. ALAIN JOCARD \/ AFP President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday, January 8, that France would vote against the European Union&#8217;s trade deal with South American bloc Mercosur, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-finance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}