EU and Latin America: strategic partnership

In the coming years, Latin America will grow at three times the rate of the EU Unless they are in need of a suntan, this might appear the least propitious of times for EU leaders to fly all the way to Santiago for a summit next month with Latin American and Caribbean countries. Unable to agree a budget, or find growth from an austerity-stricken European market, the EU is not in the best of positions to go selling itself as an alternative to the booming Asian markets. Latin America is rising, ...