European Parliament conditions. Brazil, and Mercosur as a whole, is not giving up on its proposal for a huge free trade zone with the EU. My impression, based on a speech by Benita Ferrero-Waldner (see this column in bulletin 9313), was that the EU had dropped this objective: the European Commissioner spoke of resuming negotiations on an EU-Mercosur association agreement, without making any mention of an FTZ. In its “conclusions” of 13 November, the Council spoke of next generation...