Illustrative image (Photo: daboost) Hanoi (VNA) - The Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) celebrated its 30 th anniversary on March 26. The treaty set out the basic principles for an ambitious model of integration, aimed at establishing a common market, with free circulation of goods, services, capital and people, and adopting a common trade policy, coupled with macroeconomic coordination and legal harmonisation. Throughout the years, the integration process went beyond the economic realm and made significant strides in areas such as education, culture, human rights, science and technology, justice, public security and social services, among others. That has required the building of sound institutions, which included the creation of a regional Parliament.