The Diplomat
Madrid will host a new edition of the CAF (Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean)-Europe Conference on September 13, which will address the transatlantic relationship and future development opportunities and challenges.
The annual meeting, which is supported by the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE) and Casa de América, will bring together leading experts and opinion leaders from different sectors who, under the title European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean: a joint agenda for development, will promote a strategic debate on collaboration between the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean in three key areas: green transition, digital transformation and human development.
Participants will include Nadia Calviño, acting first vice president and minister of Economy and Digital Transformation; Teresa Ribera, acting third vice president and minister of Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge; Enrique Ojeda, director general of Casa de América; Sergio Díaz-Granados, executive president of CAF; Antonio Garamendi, president of CEOE; and Trinidad Jiménez, director of Global Strategy for Public Affairs of our patron Telefónica, among others.
The event will feature four panel discussions, two special talks and the closing with final reflections. The first three panels will address the central themes mentioned above, and the fourth panel seeks to promote investment opportunities in the Caribbean as a new strategic focus for CAF. Likewise, special talks will highlight the importance of environmental sustainability and social inclusion, with the first focusing on coffee production in LAC, and the second on local development with a cultural celebration.
“CAF is supporting Spain, as a shareholder country of CAF, in its period of Presidency of the European Union to strengthen alliances with Latin America and the Caribbean and propose a renewed cooperation agenda,” the entity informed in a press release.
This conference will take place within the framework of CAF’s CLXXIX Board of Directors, to be held in Spain, and on the eve of the first meeting of Ministers of Economy and Finance of the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean, convened by the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the EU and CAF, which will bring together, on September 15, the 27 ministers of the European Union with their 33 peers from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in Santiago de Compostela.
