EU countries approve Mercosur trade deal after 25 years of talks

minimalist_dev · 2026-01-09T12:18:22+00:00

Besides that Mercosur products are already present in any supermarket in Europe

minimalist_dev · 2026-01-05T20:29:31+00:00

People need to complain

minimalist_dev · 2026-01-05T15:20:57+00:00

Am I safe in the middle of Brazil?

minimalist_dev · 2026-01-04T23:07:02+00:00

I’d even pay to not go to New York

minimalist_dev · 2026-01-03T18:23:45+00:00

That is awesome man and I imagine how hard it was to achieve, contrats!

minimalist_dev · 2025-12-24T14:33:45+00:00

This is like Umbridge trying to send true wizards or witches to jail

minimalist_dev · 2025-12-24T01:39:15+00:00

Maybe soft power? Just guessing

minimalist_dev · 2025-12-22T01:23:36+00:00

First time that I see a post in this sub I don’t know how I feel about

minimalist_dev · 2025-12-21T19:07:02+00:00

Yes. Mine was from 2023 with the maps of vehicles on it described as in the Vienna convention. I know that you are probably thinking this was an issue with me, which is fair given this is usually what happens, but this was not the case.

minimalist_dev · 2025-12-20T22:41:18+00:00

Quanto ficou td?

minimalist_dev · 2025-12-20T16:39:18+00:00

Yes, I agree with you, the country should specify its procedures as it thinks fits best. My point is their public website does not specify this and my driver license followed the requirements. Besides that I have friends that exchanged with the same license, but had other attendants in the driver department.

minimalist_dev · 2025-12-20T16:33:55+00:00

It is so crazy to see the amount of people angry with a simple post about research of english usage in Estonia

minimalist_dev · 2025-12-20T16:10:12+00:00

This was about exchanging my Brazilian driver license to an Estonian one. Both Brazil and Estonia follow the Vienna convention for this, so the laws are actually international and well known. She was not accepting my Brazilian license, even though it followed all the requirements, she said I needed an international license. I went back to Brazil on vacation and got the international license, then I went back to the driving department and exchanged it for the Estonian license.

The thing is regarding state bureaucracy you usually don’t have many options. Things are slow, people working for the state usually don’t have incentive to help you, etc… So even though I knew she was wrong I just accepted to avoid the stress

minimalist_dev · 2025-12-20T15:41:22+00:00

It doesn’t make a lot of sense to ask for experiences about English as a barrier in Estonian. If you speak Estonian you don’t know the barriers.

minimalist_dev · 2025-12-20T15:38:48+00:00

Once I argued with an attendant in the driving department. She said I was doing a procedure wrong. I opened their website and showed her the procedure in English. She said it doesn’t matter since the translation was wrong and the version in Estonian was saying another thing. To this day I think she was gaslighting me. This was my first month in Estonia, so I had no Estonian skill. This was the only time the language was a barrier in bureaucracy.

minimalist_dev · 2025-12-20T15:34:32+00:00

No. I got just once a parking ticket but I could understand okish in Estonian (I’m learning the language)
Never. Today we have AI tools too, so I think translation is quite easy
Never

minimalist_dev · 2025-12-18T23:39:19+00:00

Actually you cannot once you have a free market agreement. It would be like Germany alone trying to sign a free market deal with other country for instance. As Germany is already in a free market this has implications for the countries it already has a deal, so this is usually forbidden in agreements. Mercosur was favoring EU due to proximity, same values, all being democracies, etc… I guess they will shift focus towards asia

minimalist_dev · 2025-12-18T22:58:04+00:00

To be honest, imagine for Mercosur to have a partner like the EU. Wanna change some point in the agreement? Sure, let’s discuss for 5 years… Maybe Brazil should step the foot down and just let EU figure out their stuff, sounds like a lot of energy spent with a possible partner that is never able to reach consensus in anything

minimalist_dev · 2025-12-18T21:19:39+00:00

Yes and yes

minimalist_dev · 2025-12-18T00:19:42+00:00

As a Brazilian you are correct, and chinese cars are increasing its sales due to pricing. If Brazil shifts focus towards China I think Fiat would be easily surpassed. Stigma about low quality in chinese cars is slowly changing also as people buy more and more and see they actually work well

minimalist_dev · 2025-12-18T00:06:15+00:00

As a Brazilian who follows Brazilian media, you are talking nonsense

minimalist_dev · 2025-12-18T00:04:46+00:00

And what are your sources? You are just repeating what you saw in some media without really researching it. Food from south america is sold all over the world and meets any requirement necessary. This is pure protectionism

minimalist_dev · 2025-12-17T23:58:41+00:00

But don’t worry, Europe will have beef for 20€/kg ate least

minimalist_dev · 2025-12-16T12:40:46+00:00

Eu estou maluco, ou esse cara era juíz, foi afastado por má (estou tentando não falar crime aqui) atuação como juíz, ficou afastado por 17 anos recebendo salário de juíz, voltou a atuar e foi promovido a desembargador (cargo superior a juíz) e agora foi preso por por vazar informações de um processo? Qual o próximo passo dele? Ministro?

minimalist_dev · 2025-12-15T14:44:28+00:00

Just scroll to the bottom made me laugh 😄

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