EU trade chief cancels Brazil trip as prospects of Mercosur deal recede

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The EU’s trade commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis has cancelled a trip to Brazil to finalise the bloc’s landmark trade deal with the South American group of Mercosur countries as prospects receded of completing the deal this year.

The EU’s trade chief had been due to travel to Rio de Janeiro for a gathering of the Mercosur nations,…