Tomorrow, Tuesday at 11 a.m., the Fundación Alternativas is organising a round table discussion entitled EU-CELAC Summit: A new strategic relationship? It can also be watched in streaming at this link.
The debate will be presented and moderated by Vicente Palacio, Director of Foreign Policy at the Alternativas Foundation, and will be attended by Lilia Paola Ureña, Deputy National Coordinator for CELAC. Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Government of Mexico (video intervention); Javi López, Socialist MEP. Co-President of EUROLAT; Leire Pajín, President of the EULAC Foundation; Pablo Gentilli, Professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. Coordinator of the School of Latin American and Global Studies, and Cecilia Nicolini, Secretary for Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Innovation, Republic of Argentina.
Europe attends the Euro-Latin American meeting in Brussels as part of the developed West, while Latin America and the Caribbean do so under the imaginary of the Global South. Are we really facing a new strategic relationship? What are the expectations and prospects of agreements on investments in digital or environmental issues, raw materials, MERCOSUR or the strengthening of our democracies?