00724nam a2200085Ia 4500100002200000245006300022260000900085520052500094583001900619  aTHORSTENSEN, Vera  aMercosul [sic] : the road to NAFTA and the European Union.  c1994  aLooks at the challenges presently facing Mercosur, viz., Mercosur should spearhead the formation of a new regional bloc encompassing all of South America; Mercosur should maintain a 'global trader' policy while embarking on more aggressive negotiations of preferential and sector-specific agreements with its major trading partner, the European Union; and, Mercosur should forge closer alignment with the US in spearheading the hemisphere-wide process of integration between NAFTA and the South American Free Trade Area.  c3/7/00kM2LMGR