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The Financial Times publishes today an article where analysts say that Brazil’s telecoms industry needs to consolidate. They affirm that consolidation will bring great synergies and help improve the quality of services. However, says the article, before any changes related to the four main operators in the country, the Congress needs to change the General

President Dilma Rousseff starts her second term with 20 new appointed officials in her cabinet. Out of the 19 that remained, four have changed office. There are important differences in the political distribution of posts from 2011, when the Brazilian president was elected for her first term. In that year, her party, PT, had 17

The new Brazil’s minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Armando Monteiro Neto, says that the trade partnership between the country and the European Union should be one of the foreign trade policy priorities in 2015. During president Dilma Rousseff’s first term, Brazil sought closer ties with countries in development in Latin America, Africa and

From January 1, Berzoini will replace Paul Bernardo in the Ministry of Communications, as announced on Monday (29) by Brazil’s Presidential Palace. Born in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Ricardo Berzoini is a Member of the National Directory of the PT (Workers Party) and was part of the Political Council of president Dilma Rousseff’s re-election

EUBrasil held last Tuesday (9/12) the networking event Friends of EUBrazil, in partnership with the Brazilian Mission to the European Union, in Brussels. During the occasion, the association released the study “Enhancing economic and financial ties between Brazil and the European Union”, with the results of a survey conducted among the top European and Brazilian

During an event organised by EUBrasil on Tuesday (9/12), Ambassador Vera Machado, Head of the Brazilian Mission to the European Union, said that she believes that the re-elected president’s new economic team will seriously start addressing the Free Trade Agreement with the EU as soon as January. “Brazil will assume the rotating presidency of Mercosur

In a survey conducted by the EUBrasil Association, international companies involved with Brazil and the European Union indicated that a free trade agreement should be the priority for the new European Commission. They point out that the elimination of tariffs is still important but no longer a priority and that regulations are the main barrier