The Diplomat
Yesterday began in Santander the summer course Latin America and the European Union, partners in a changing world: a new stage in EU-CELAC relations, organized by the Carolina Foundation in the framework of the summer courses that each year the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP) programs.
The course, which is sponsored by the Government of Cantabria and supported by the European External Action Service (EEAS), will be held at the Palacio de la Magdalena, until Friday, July 28th, and is directed by José Antonio Sanahuja, director of the Carolina Foundation, and Paz Díaz Nieto, coordinator of the European Projects Office of Cantabria. The two directors of the course participated yesterday in the opening ceremony together with Carlos Andradas, rector of the UIMP, and Javier Niño, director for the Americas of the European External Action Service.
The event takes place a week after the Summit between the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), which was held in Brussels on July 17 and 18. In this sense, the main objective of the group is to promote a high-level dialogue to take stock of the meeting, assess the agreements reached and reflect on the “road map” that will be opened after the Summit.
The course is also conceived as a space for analyzing the broad transformations that the international system is undergoing at the economic, political and social levels, the impact of critical junctures such as the Covid-19 pandemic or the war in Ukraine, the agendas and strategies for development and international cooperation and, at the level of the regions and territories, the challenge of the “triple transition”.
A high-level political dialogue is scheduled for Thursday, entitled Latin America and the Caribbean and the EU, a renewed alliance, with the participation of Rector Carlos Andradas; Josep Borrell, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the European Commission; Antonia Urrejola, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile; and Luis Guillermo Solís, former President of Costa Rica.
