When I was in Brussels two months ago, there was a strange mix of both defiance and resignation among Irish MEPs. MEPs from across political parties were holding their line of opposition to the EU’s mammoth free trade agreement with the Mercosur countries in South America but quietly resigning themselves to the likelihood that the deal would pass one way or another. “In very short and to be really direct, sadly based off numbers today, Mercosur will go through. That doesn’t mean my vote will be for it at the end of the day,” Fine Gael MEP Maria Walsh told…

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