The following are details of a trade accord between the EU and South America's Mercosur bloc. The EU executive is struggling to win support from Italy and deal critics France, Poland and Hungary, which would be needed to sign the agreement by the end of the year.

Squabbles over the EU-Mercosur trade deal are likely to punctuate a European Union summit in Brussels on Thursday. Agricultural unions have projected up to 10,000 protestors in Brussels on Thursday, including 4,

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has warned that the long delayed EU Mercosur trade agreement will be effectively dead if the European Union postpones its signing again. Speaking at a ministerial meeting in Brasilia,

Coming up today: a real chance for peace. At key talks in Berlin, European leaders have declared to have made ‘significant progress’ on ending the war in Ukraine but insisted that ‘nothing is agreed until everything is agreed.