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The Summit of the Americas from a European perspective
24/04/2009 By Susanne Gratius, Nils-Sjard Schulz
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In the recent Summit of the Americas, held on 17-19 April in Port-of-Spain (Trinidad and Tobago), Barack Obama became the “friend of the Americas”. Obama has made up for the lack of financial resources with political concessions to Cuba, Bolivia and Venezuela, thus opening a new era in inter-American relations.
The Summit of the Americas provides some lessons for the next meeting of the main leaders of the UE and Latin America to be held in May 2010 in Madrid, and can be considered the first step in a transatlantic agenda with Latin America. The next meeting will be an opportunity for reflections on a common triangular agenda to define more specifically the strategic associations that the US and the EU share with Brazil and Mexico.
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Keywords
Argentina Bolivia Canada Chile Civil society Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Latin America & Caribbean Mexico Multilateralism Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Trinidad and Tobago United States US VenezuelaRelated publications
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