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Regional powers / Activity Brief

IBSA: an international actor and partner for the EU?

20/11/2007 By Susanne Gratius, Sarah-Lea John de Sousa

On 17 October 2007 the second IBSA Summit was held in Pretoria, South Africa, between the heads of state of India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA). Parallel to the summit meeting, FRIDE, in close cooperation with the FES office in Brussels, launched an initial dialogue between IBSA and representatives of the EU.

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After an opening session with Brazilian, Indian and South African experts in Madrid, a two day event was held in Brussels bringing together EU officials and experts with a group of high-level academics from the three participating countries.

Finally, several participants stressed that IBSA offers broad opportunities for regionalism, particularly with regards to integration, democracy, regional leadership and fragile states. At the same time, IBSA creates a new and innovative platform for closer links with the EU.

Some participants suggested opening a regular IBSA-EU dialogue forum on different topics of common interest such as security and peace missions, the UN system, China as a rival or partner, Africa as a platform for common action, the WTO Doha round, regional integration and democracy promotion.

The organisers thereby underlined the opportunity for further exploration of a common agenda between IBSA and the EU based on their strong commitment to democracy, peace and development.


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IBSA: India, Brazil, South Africa

Keywords

Asia Brazil Conflict prevention Conflict resolution Democracy Development European Union Fragile state India International relations Latin America & Caribbean South Africa South East Asia Southern Africa Sub-Saharan Africa

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Bio author: Susanne Gratius

PhD in Political Science by the University of Hamburg. Expert in Latin America.

Bio author: Sarah-Lea John de Sousa

MA in Regional Sciences of Latin America (RWL) from the University of Cologne and currently studying her PhD in International Relations at the University Complutense of Madrid. Sarah-Lea John de Sousa has been development project manager at the agency Chuconsultig Germany.