{"id":234805,"date":"2026-01-08T20:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/234805\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:20:10","slug":"explainer-what-is-the-mercosur-deal-and-is-there-anything-good-in-it-for-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/234805\/","title":{"rendered":"Explainer: what is the Mercosur deal, and is there anything good in it for Ireland?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris speaks to the media today about the Government's decision to vote against the EU-Mercosur trade agreement. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3f7ec32a-5631-4b49-a0b7-8db5fbb1a55f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris speaks to the media today about the Government&#8217;s decision to vote against the EU-Mercosur trade agreement. Photo: PA<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Taoiseach and T\u00e1naiste confirmed today that Ireland will vote against the controversial Mercosur trade deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">While this vote will be symbolic, as the deal is now expected to go through the EU Council tomorrow, the Coalition has decided to stick with its commitment in the Programme for Government and oppose the agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris speaks to the media today about the Government&#8217;s decision to vote against the EU-Mercosur trade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[114,2244,61,60,1843,43,7732],"class_list":{"0":"post-234805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-micheal-martin","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tabitha-monahan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}