Brazil reevaluates terms of joining the OECD, says Haddad

Brazil will resume talks to join the OECD (a group that brings together some of the most developed countries in the world), but it may present conditions to continue the process of joining the club that brings together the richest democratic countries in the world, it said this Wednesday (18). ) Finance Minister Fernando Haddad told journalists at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.

According to him, the Brazilian government will once again sit at the table with its partners in commercial and political blocs abroad under the presidency of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT).

The task is facilitated by the fact that the country has been anointed, coincidentally, with the triple crown of the Mercosur and G20 presidencies, this year, and from 2025 of the Brics, which integrates India, China and South Africa with Russia and to which the previous management turned its back.

Haddad met in the morning with the OECD secretary general, Mathias Cormann, in one of the forum’s private rooms.

“Brazil already participates a lot in the OECD, myself when Minister of Education [em gestão anterior de Lula] I maintained participation in Pisa [exame que afere o nível de ensino em diferentes países]. This rapprochement is happening naturally”, said the minister when asked about the accession process. “Now we are going to see with the Itamaraty and the Presidency of the Republic the next steps.”

Joining the OECD, formally requested by the Michel Temer government in 2017, gained momentum under Bolsonaro after Brasilia obtained support from the United States in exchange for giving up its special status in another multilateral body, the World Trade Organization, in a criticized deal. in season. Afterwards, however, the process stagnated, as the country needs to present a series of measures to conform to the group.

Asked if there was any demand from Cormann, Haddad said no for now. He suggested, however, that there might be, and also on the part of the Brazilian government.

According to him, there is a working group for the subject, in which the secretary of International Affairs of the folder, Tatiana Rosito, who accompanied him to Davos and “will present the terms of an eventual participation so that the Treasury can subsidize the president in the definition he takes,” he said.

He had said before that the decision was up to Lula, and in the two previous terms the PT had prioritized relations with other developing countries.

Before joining a panel on Latin America this afternoon and heading back to Brazil, Haddad also met with Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Uber. According to the minister, in the conversation he reinforced the Brazilian government wants to regularize the situation of app drivers, especially social security.

Since taking office, 23 unions representing motorcycle couriers, motorcycle couriers and motorcycle freight operators have requested an audience with the president and the new Minister of Labor, Luiz Marinho.