After years of neglect, the European Union seems to have rediscovered Latin America. More than fifty heads of state and government from both sides of the Atlantic are talking in Brussels, the capital of Belgium and the seat of the Commission – a kind of Executive – of the European Union.
Major geopolitical changes were mainly responsible for ending this “period of oblivion”, as they say so beautifully in Spanish. Those years of oblivion.
The president of the Commission of the European Union, the German Ursula von der Leyen, even spoke of European investments of around US$ 50 billion in the great Latin American space, as a way of counterbalancing the expansion of China in the region, which the Europeans understand to be the result of its own disregard for Latin America.
The recent European intention to counterbalance China has to do with the great geopolitical tensions, opposing the western alliance, on the one hand, to the autocratic China/Russia axis, on the other. Europeans found a new spirit of unity and joint action as a result of the war in Ukraine.
In relation to which, however, the divergences between Latin Americans make it difficult to write a final communiqué of the meeting that is now taking place in Brussels. Latin Americans, in fact, can only be considered a block in the most generic sense of the term.
But what happens now is important, says the important Spanish newspaper “El País”, the most important publication in Spanish in the world. It is the last train from Europe to Latin America and the Caribbean.
Source: CNN Brasil
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