森林伐採 in Brazil, 投票(する) in Argentina 危うくする EU-Mercosur 協定/条約

By Anthony Boadle

BRASILIA, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Brazil's backsliding on アマゾン 自然保護 under 右翼 大統領 Jair Bolsonaro and a likely Peronist return to 力/強力にする in Argentina could 延期する or even derail 批准 of an EU-Mercosur 貿易協定 that took two 10年間s to 交渉する.

森林伐採 has 殺到するd since Bolsonaro's 選挙 last year. His 計画(する)s to develop the アマゾン and moves to 弱める rainforest 保護 have alarmed 環境保護主義者s and given 弾薬/武器 to European 対抗者s of the 貿易(する) を取り引きする the South American ありふれた market.

Two former Brazilian 環境 大臣s, Jose Sarney Filho and Izabella Teixeira, said Bolsonaro has 速く 土台を崩すd Brazil's hard-won 評判 as a responsible food 生産者 and a leader in world 環境の 会議s.

"Nobody imagined he would 取り去る/解体する Brazil's 命令(する) and 支配(する)/統制する 機械装置s for 保護するing the 環境 so 急速な/放蕩な and 効果的に," Sarney said in a interview.

He said Bolsonaro has deliberately demoralized 環境の 機関s and given wildcat 鉱夫s an incentive to 削減(する) 負かす/撃墜する trees and 侵略する indigenous 保留(地)/予約s.

Brazil's 大統領/総裁などの地位 did not 答える/応じる すぐに to a request for comment.

Sarney pointed to a "high 危険" that some EU 議会s, 特に in big farming countries such as フラン, will not 批准する the (許可,名誉などを)与える 結論するd last month with Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.

French 大統領 Emmanuel Macron 警告するd in June he would not 調印する the EU-Mercosur 協定/条約 if Bolsonaro pulled Brazil out of the Paris 気候 (許可,名誉などを)与える.

まっただ中に 深くするing 緊張s with フラン over 気候 change 政策 and the 環境, Bolsonaro suddenly 取り消すd a July 29 会合 with French 外務大臣 ジーンズ-Yves Le Drian - and went for a haircut instead.

Germany and Norway have 一時停止するd 寄付s to a $1.2 billion 基金 to 支援する 維持できる 事業/計画(する)s in the アマゾン after the 政府 shut 負かす/撃墜する the steering 委員会 that sel ects 事業/計画(する)s and planned to use it to 補償する 農業者s who had land 没収するd in 保護するd areas.

Bolsonaro, a 国家主義者 who has attacked foreign 干渉,妨害 in the アマゾン, retorted that Brazil had nothing to learn from European nations and did not need the money. He said the 基金s should be used to reforest Germany.

European 外交官s and 分析家s said Bolsonaro's 姿勢 on the アマゾン will 燃料 対立 to the Mercosur 協定, which has already 直面するd 抗議するs.

"You have a 大統領,/社長 who is 基本的に torpedoing this 取引,協定, not only with his 環境の 政策, but with the way he 現在のs it to the world," said Oliver Stuenkel, international 事件/事情/状勢s 専門家 at the Getulio Vargas 創立/基礎 in Sao Paulo.

"There are a growing number of 発言する/表明するs 特に in フラン and Germany 説 that unless this 政策 changes the EU should no longer 批准する the 取引,協定," Stuenkel said.

AGRIBUSINESS WORRIED

森林伐採 in Brazil more than 3倍になるd in July over the year, data from Brazil's INPE space 研究 機関 shows. Bolsonaro attacked the data as 誤って導くing and 解雇する/砲火/射撃d the 機関's 長,率いる.

Brazil's powerful agribusiness 部門, which managed to 納得させる Bolsonaro not to 身を引く Brazil from the Paris (許可,名誉などを)与える, is worried his 姿勢 on the アマゾン could lead to a ボイコット(する) against their 輸出(する)s.

Farming 有力者/大事業家 and former 農業 大臣 Blairo Maggi told Valor Economico newspaper that Bolsonaro's "積極的な" speeches on the 環境 could 沈む the EU-Mercosur 協定 and destroy years of work to get Brazil's food 輸出(する)s an environmentally friendly stamp.

Walter Schalka, 長,指導者 (n)役員/(a)執行力のある of Suzano Papel e Celulose SA, 勧めるd agribusiness leaders this week to speak up against the 殺到する in アマゾン 森林伐採.

"Brazil will have to 証明する that it can produce its 製品s in a 維持できる way, without 追加するing to 森林伐採," former 大臣 Teixeira told Reuters. "Today countries are 尋問 Brazil's 信用性."

CHANGE IN ARGENTIN A

Sunday's 最初の/主要なs in Argentina put the EU-Mercosur 取引,協定 under a new cloud of 不確定 as Peronist 候補者 Alberto Fernandez 現れるd as the 半端物-on favorite to 勝利,勝つ the 大統領の 選挙 in October.

He has said he wants to renegotiate parts of the 貿易(する) 取引,協定 that do not 控訴 Argentina. That could unravel the 協定 given the rising 抵抗 in Europe.

"If Fernandez is elected and wants to renegotiate parts of the (許可,名誉などを)与える, it would have to be 再開するd 完全に. We would be 支援する to square one," a European 外交官 in Brazil said on 条件 of anonymity 予定 to the sensitivity of the 事柄.

While Fernandez is a 穏健な Peronist, his running mate is former Argentine 大統領 Cristina Fernandez Kirchner, a 保護貿易論者 who is no fan of the EU 取引,協定.

"The 圧力 on him to not just 受託する and wave though this 協定 is やめる 重要な," said Stuenkel.

Brazil's foreign 省 拒絶する/低下するd to comment on the prospects for the EU-Mercosur 協定 if Fernandez 勝利,勝つs.

Foreign 貿易(する) 長官 Marcos Troyjo defended Brazil's 政策 on the アマゾン, 説, "The 環境の 政策 of this 政府 is the intelligent use of the country's natural 資源s."

(報告(する)/憶測ing by Anthony Boadle; 付加 報告(する)/憶測ing by Stephen Eisenhammer in S?o Paulo and Lisandra Paraguass? in Brasilia Editing by Daniel Flynn and Richard Chang)

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