A photo-op with Jair Bolsonaro, anyone?
The European Union must understand that a promise in a trade deal is no substitute for a deforestation control policy – something that’s awfully lacking in Brazil under its far-right regime, writes Marcio Astrini. Marcio Astrini is the executive director of Observatório do Clima, a network of 63 Brazilian civil society organisations. According to a famous quote misattributed to Albert Einstein, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. The European Union’s desperate attempt to ratify a trade deal with the South American Mercosur bloc fits the...