Evidence of business transition between Europe and the New World

Yesterday in Brussels, the EU-Latin America and the Caribbean (CELAC) Summit kicked off the European attempt to unify the Alliance with the New World. “The celebration of the summit, after the last summit 8 years ago, is indeed a success,” said Javi López, Spanish socialist and co-president of the European-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly, in the statement.

The morning is for work. Lula of Brazil, Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez and EU Commission President von der Leyen met with development bankers and CEOs of major companies. Europe announces investments of €45 billion, under the umbrella of the Eu-Lac Global portal. Funding related to green transformation, digital transformation and vaccine production. Investments, directed by large corporations, are the instrument of European foreign policy to recover lost ground in Latin America. It was won by Beijing, whose imports from the region exceed the sum of its imports from Europe and the United States.

It opens at noon political summit. But the dialogue is taking place on an uneven level. The European Union speaks with one voice. As for CELAC, it is just a dialogue mechanism whose weight depends on the political cycle. The pro-presidency rests temporarily with St. Vincent and the Grenadines, an island nation of one hundred thousand people in the Caribbean. Celak recovers from the decline thanks to the return of Lula and Brazil, who left the group. “Latin America is a European priority to get out of isolation in the southern hemisphere. Europe must play all the cards, says Carlos Malamud of Real Instituto Elcano, both in terms of dialogue with Celac and with individual Latin American countries. Defining the idea of ​​playing all the cards, a bilateral summit will be held on Monday afternoon between the European Union and CARICOM (the Union of Caribbean States).

Welcome to Brussels, the home of NATO. We work for peace, security and freedom »confirms the 6×3 poster at Brussels Airport. Ukrainian flags flutter in middle-class apartment buildings in the Shcherbek district. In the morning, officials from Brussels quickly enter the EU offices with yellow-blue pins pinned to their jackets.

About Ukraine support The solidity of the alliance between the two regions is measured. Almost all GRULAC countries, at the United Nations, voted to condemn the Russian invasion (with the exception of Nicaragua voting against and Cuba, El Salvador and Bolivia abstaining). But they later refused to send weapons to Kiev, approved sanctions on Moscow and thwarted the possibility of Ukrainian President Zelensky’s participation in the summit.
Lula, in his midday speech with the heads of state and government, is trying to mediate: «We are on the line of the United Nations Charter: the rejection of force to resolve differences. We support initiatives to stop hostilities and peace negotiations.” European officials confirmed that they are working on the text of the Final Declaration, while expressing solidarity with Kiev.

Outside the European buildings, in the classrooms of the Free University of Brussels, the Cumbre de los Pueblos, the counter-top of the social movements and left-wing parties of the two regions, is organized. Hundreds of participants, Cuba and Venezuela the most represented countries. For Italy, Don Mattia Ferrari, the thirty-year-old chaplain of the NGO Mediterranea, denounces the situation of immigrants in Mare Nostrum. There is talk of the effects of the embargo in Cuba and environmental activists share struggle strategies.

“Extraction A detonator of violence in our territory, says María José, a Colombian activist against the polluting activities of the multinational AngloGold Ashanti mining, where the alliance between corporations and private security groups is united. “Beside the coal mines, they will build solar panels and wind turbines, in line with the green transition. But in my land every year 40 children die from pollution ». Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra in Lazio.

Labels welcome some Latin American leaders to Compre. The President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, is also greeted. Who suppressed popular protests, ruled in favor of big corporations, stripped those who criticized his family of citizenship, imprisoned a bishop, and expelled the International Red Cross, as narrated by Gianni Beretta in this newspaper. Is he welcome too?