Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR) MEPs Georgiana Teodorescu, Adrian Axinia and Gheorghe Piperea have officially notified the European Commission and the European Council regarding the lack of the legal mandate necessary for the signing of the EU-MERCOSUR Agreement, announced for the coming days in Paraguay.
According to the AUR, in accordance with the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the signing of an international agreement of such magnitude cannot take place without a formal decision of the Council of the European Union, adopted in a legally convened meeting or through a completed written procedure, in which the ministers of the Member States express their vote and political mandate. A simple meeting of COREPER II cannot substitute for this mandatory stage, as COREPER has an exclusively technical and preparatory role, without decision-making powers.
“In the absence of a decision by the EU Council, Ursula von der Leyen does not have the legal r...

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