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World Service,29 Jun 2019,53 mins
EU and Mercosur agree trade deal after 20-year talks
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The EU and South American economic bloc Mercosur have clinched a huge trade deal after 20 years of negotiations. EU Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said it was the EU's biggest deal to date and, at a time of trade tensions between the US and China, showed that "we stand for rules-based trade". The BBC's Daniel Gallas explains how the deal came to be. Meanwhile, all eyes are on the meeting between Presidents Trump and Xi at the G20 in Osaka Saturday, with markets hoping they will take a step closer to ending the trade conflict. Also in the show, we take a long look at the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the workplace, on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York. And we go to the Glastonbury festival to see how the British institution has weathered all storms for nearly 50 years. (Picture: Aerial view of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Picture credit: Matthew Stockman/Getty Images.)
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