Mercosur at 30: the challenges of a post-pandemic world

Cláudio Finkelstein Professor of Law, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil 1. Introduction: Mercosur and the pandemic On 25 March of 1991, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay signed the Treaty of Asunción creating the Southern Common Market (“Mercosur”). At the time, the intention was only to establish a mutual economic relationship within a free...