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Mercosur trade talks to take place in Uruguay next week. The European Union and Mercosur, South America's main trading bloc, will seek to move closer to an association...

Trade commissioner critical of Argentina and Brazil. Karel De Gucht, the European commissioner for trade, has criticised Argentina and Brazil for introducing what he...

Farmers in many member states unhappy at trade talks. The relaunch last May of EU trade negotiations with Mercosur – Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay – displeased...

Lisbon treaty gives greater powers over trade to the Parliament. The EU's Treaty of Lisbon, which took effect in December 2009, gives the European Parliament the authority...

Barroso and Van Rompuy travel to Brasilia meeting. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the president of Brazil, will host a visit from José Manuel Barroso, the president of...

Agreement to be signed with six countries after tense negotiations. The European Union and six central American countries have made a breakthrough in trade negotiations and...

The EU must take advantage of Brazil's rise as an emerging global player and make it a partner in achieving international agreements. The EU-Brazil summit hosted by the...

The EU recognises the growing importance of Brazil, so the relationship is changing. Brazil has only recently joined the ranks of countries that qualify for a ‘strategic...

Brazil seeks to strengthen its role as the region's undisputed leader, but also looks for partners further afield.

Trade between the EU and Brazil has increased rapidly in recent years, in spite of high-profile spats over beef and sugar. The EU and Brazil have a flourishing but...

Agenda topped by biofuels and climate change risks being undermined by personalities and indifference. Regional disputes and personality clashes are threatening to...

The EU and Brazil will be discussing ways of collaborating more closely on biofuels production and investment at a summit next month (4 July). Both parties will be seeking...

It has been customary for European leaders to display their Atlanticist credentials by championing a free trade agreement between the EU and the United States. The logic...

Two MEPs discuss EU-Latin American relations Today and tomorrow (12-13 May) the City of Vienna will hold the fourth European Union-Latin American and the Caribbean Summit...

Observers might be forgiven for thinking that the EU would be pleased with the recent frenzy of co-operation in Latin America. For three decades the EU has promoted regional...

Since 1995, Mercosur and the EU have been holding talks aimed at creating what would be, with a total population of 680 million people, the world's largest free trade area....

IN THE era of eastward enlargement and the fight against terrorism, Latin America does not figure highly on the foreign policy agendas of the EU and its member states. Not...

IN ALMOST 40 years of free trade talks with Latin America, the EU and US have had little to show for it. The North American Free Trade Accord (NAFTA) was created ten years...

FOREIGN policy chief Javier Solana joined a chorus of international condemnation over an Israeli air strike on Gaza which left 15 Palestinians dead, nine of them children, on...

Recent events mean it won't be one big salsa party at the EU-Latin American summit in Madrid this weekend. Far from it, as David Cronin reports.