What European cooperation instruments are available to boost post-pandemic productive recovery, the security of energy sources and the digital, green and fair transformation in LAC? What are the prospects for resuming high-level dialogue between the two regions? These and other questions were addressed in Buenos Aires on 24 October during the international seminar "The EU-LAC Strategic Partnership and the instruments of political and sectoral cooperation, trade, investment and sustainable development", organised by the EU-LAC Foundation with the Carolina Foundation, and the University of Buenos Aires at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).
The seminar aimed to promote a dialogue with specialists and senior officials from the EU and LAC on the opportunities offered by the bi-regional strategic partnership and its instruments to respond to common challenges in the face of the objectives of both regions in the geopolitical and sustainable development spheres.
This academic event took place in the same week as the meeting of foreign ministers of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the EU, which took place in Buenos Aires.
The Director of the EU-LAC Foundation, Adrián Bonilla, stressed that "the emergence of new economic poles in the current international system once again highlights the importance of the LAC-EU strategic partnership, which is defined as "the other transatlantic relationship", while José Antonio Sanahuja, from the Carolina Foundation, stressed that "we must make the agreements between the two regions a space for convergence".
In the current international context, the seminar in Buenos Aires stressed that Latin America and the Caribbean and the European Union must redouble their efforts to build strategic alliances, taking into account shared values of democracy, sustainable development, human rights and the rule of law.
