The EU-CELAC Summit in Brussels: New Horizons or New Geopolitical Schemes?

... market. However, the final declaration of the EU-CELAC Summit, as well as a number of earlier declarations and communiqués, expressed hope that the EU-Mercosur trade agreement will be signed as soon as possible. There is little doubt that the European Union, just as the US, would also like the Pacific Alliance rather than Mercosur to lead integration processes in Latin America and the Caribbean, and prefers a more manageable Mexico to independent Brazil (although both of these Latin American countries are members of G20, and Mexico's GDP is slightly smaller than Brazil’s). The way the cards fall in this ...