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China, the EU and Latin America : current issues and future cooperation
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CurrentandFutureCooperationundertheEUMERCOSURAgreement 25 2007.In2005 tradecoveredbypreferentialagreementsreached63percent 12 percentintraregionaland51percentextraregional whichwasexpectedtorise to72 percentin 2007.Traditionalintegration schemesseem to havelost relevancefortheinternationalagendasoftheirmembers. Inlightofproblems withthepronounced political economicandsocial heterogeneityofLatin Americancountries andthus withtheacceptanceand negotiation offullblown Association Agreements with an FTA it was recommendedtoseekformulaswhichmakearegionalbasedstrategycompatible withbilateralapproaches.Proceedinginadifferentiatedmanner withtailored gradualcalendarsandscopeaccordingtothevariouscapacitiesofthoseinvolved isonewayforward assuggestedbyrepresentativesoftheprivatesectorin BraziltotheEUMERCOSURmeetingon12November2009.Inordertomake progress Argentina seemed to suggestabandoning the usualnegotiating approachof nothingisagreeduntileverythingisagreed toclosechapterson whichprovisionalagreementhasalreadybeenreached aswellastoaddress tradeandotheropenissueswithpossibleadaptationclauses forexample to smooththingsoverindifficultsituationswithregardtocompetition .Itremains tobeseenwhethersuchanunusualapproachwillwork. Initsrecentcommunicationon LatinAmericaandtheEU AnAssociation ofGlobalPartners theEuropeanCommissiontakesasimilarline.Inaddition itsuggestsaparticularMechanismforInvestmentinLatinAmerica MIAL liketheEuropeanNeighbourhoodMechanism withstartingfundsfromtheEU budget.Itshould privilege cooperationininterconnectivity infrastructure socialfieldsandtheenvironment aswellasfosteringsmallandmediumsized enterprises.Thisisinline withtheoverarchingtopicforthe6th EULAC SummitinMay2010inSpain. ApartfromthisnewapproachtoEUMERCOSURrelations negotiations andcooperation norealchancefortrilateralcooperation by either partner outsidetheirregionsisapparent.Thisis ifatall possibleonlyinbilateral relations suchEUBrazil orwithMexicoorChile.Intheconcreteactionplans agreedwiththem trilateralcooperationismentioned.Indeed BrazilandtheEU recentlyconvenedtostudyjointcooperationindevelopingbioelectricityandbio fuelinMozambique seealsoEUCouncil2008 6.犆狅狀犮犾狌狊犻狅狀 IntegrationschemessuchastheAndeanCommunityofNations CAN or MERCOSUR still seem inadequate for reaching such objectives as the