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L'ampliació de la Unió Europea

Subtitle: 
els efectes a l'Amèrica Llatina
Publication Name: 
Diàlegs: revista d'estudis polítics i socials
Volume, number, page: 
9:31, pp.67-85
Year of Publication: 
2006
Author(s): 
NOLTE Claudia
Organization Name: 
Institut d'Estudis Humanístics Miquel Coll i Alentorn
Acronym: 
INEHCA
Publisher: 
INEHCA
City: 
Barcelona
Country of Publication: 
España
Full Date: 
2007
ISBN or ISSN: 
1138-9850
Category: 
Academic articles
Theme: 
BILATERAL RELATIONS UE - LAC
Subregion - European Union
BIREGIONAL RELATIONS UE - LAC
Agreements
Strategic Partnerships
BIREGIONAL DIALOGUES UE-LAC
Government
Business
Keyword(s): 
Economic cooperation
European Political Cooperation
European Union
Latin America
International cooperation
Foreign Policy
Economic integration policy
Political and economic integration
Trade integration
Political cooperation
Abstract: 
With the accession of ten new countries on May 1, 2004, the European Union completed its largest ever extension. With the current 25 members, the EU is consolidated as one of the biggest markets in the world and, as is logical, this new reality entails political and economic upheavals. The author shows how this process has aroused an incipient fear among EU partners in Latin America due to this greater interest shown in the Eastern European countries. Countries whose economy is based on agriculture and livestock, such as Argentina, fear that the new agrarian markets (particularly Poland) may affect their trade dealings with the EU. Nevertheless, for the moment, events have allayed these fears. Be that as it may, the author feels that it is imperative that the traditional relations between European and Latin America continue to be strengthened, based on a certain scale of shared values, as the only way to make progress in the strategic cooperation of the two partners, and thus bring greater stability and democracy to an increasingly more globalised world.