Is the politicial dialogue between the European Union and Latin America useful?
Casa AmericaMadrid, Spain 23/01/2008
Description
In this round-table the book ¿Is political dialogue between the European Union and Latin America useful?, edited by the Carolina Foundation in close cooperation with three other institutions, will be presented.
The book brings together the documents presented in the seminar of the same name that was staged in Casa de América and finishes with a list of recommendations formulated before the Vienna Summit in May 2006.
Against this backdrop, the panellists analyse the current state of European-Latin American relations in the run-up to the summit, which will be staged in Lima in May 2008. This implies a critical revision of the advances and setbacks experienced since the previous summit and with respect to the declaration signed in Vienna. It also asks whether the previous paradigm of integration is still valid and questions whether the existing fora for political dialogue are appropriate to the realities of both regions.
Finally, it asks if it might be necessary to rethink strategic ties with a region that seems less and less relevant to Europe, before offering some concrete proposals for the future of European-Latin American relations.
Program
12h00 - Reception of participants and welcome
The roundtable will have the presence of:
Alberto Navarro -Spanish Secretary of State for the European Union
Pierre Schori - Director general of FRIDE
José Antonio Sanahuja - Director of the departament of Cooperation and Development at the Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI)
Susanne Gratius - Researcher of FRIDE
