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Marcelo Montes: The Future of Mercosur Is Now in Question

... facing the region, hope for a genuinely progressive Mercosur looks increasingly threatened. Marcelo Montes , professor of international relations at the National University of Villa Maria in Argentina, shares his views on the integration process in Latin America and suggests what Russia can do to avoid making the same mistakes. Mercosur is facing a lot of problems nowadays, partly due to controversy over the Venezuelan presidency. How is the situation going to develop from your point of view? Mercosur was established in 1991, and it happened mostly because the situation in the ...

07.07.2016

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

... 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 ...

17.06.2015

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