India, Feb. 3 -- Since December 2025, a wave of agrarian anger has swept across Europe: farmers have blocked the famous Arc de Triomphe in Paris and tractors have descended upon the EU Parliament in Strasbourg, France. The trigger is the EU-Mercosur trade agreement signed on January 17.

Mercosur or the Southern Common Market is a regional South American trade bloc established in 1991, comprising Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay. The deal between the two blocs creates one of the biggest free trade zones in the world, covering a market of 700 million consumers, as data by the European Commission shows. However, European farmers fear unfair competition and say the deal will undercut European agriculture by allowing cheaper f...