Mercosur: Striving for Consensus on EU Trade

Mercosur's upcoming summit will include several notable components. One will be a transfer of the bloc's rotating chairmanship from Brazil to Paraguay. Another will be the potential confirmation of Bolivia's membership in the bloc, although the Paraguayan and Brazilian parliaments still need to grant formal approval. But perhaps the most important, and certainly the most controversial, agenda item will be the discussion of increased flexibility for Mercosur in negotiating free trade agreements with third parties....