Overview
- Officials have requested agrément from Brussels for Iglesias, a PRO deputy and chair of the lower house foreign affairs committee.
- The European Union had pressed for a permanent envoy as talks on implementing the EU–Mercosur trade agreement advance.
- Argentina’s EU mission in Brussels has lacked an ambassador since June 2024 following Atilio Beraldi’s transfer.
- EU institutions must grant agrément before Argentine legislative steps proceed through the Commission of Acuerdos and plenary votes, a process outlets report may take up to three months.
- The move tracks with Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno’s reorganization and trade-first focus, with reports pointing to potential developments at December’s Mercosur leaders’ meeting in Rio de Janeiro.