Europa deve aprender com Brasil sobre crise, diz Lula
Post date: May 19, 2010 6:19:36 AM
Europe has to learn like Brazil, how to manage deep crisis,
says Lula in Spain EU-LAC-summit 2010 Madrid LAC Latin America and Caribbean
Lula - Barroso
[Cumbre UE-Latinoamérica y Caribe (UE-ALC)]
O presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva disse ontem, em Madri, que a Europa deveria aprender com o Brasil a como sair da crise. E afirmou que quem segurou a turbulência econômica no País foi a parcela mais pobre da população, que atendeu ao apelo para consumir com responsabilidade. "Essa foi uma lição que deveria servir para a Europa", afirmou, dirigindo-se ao presidente da Comissão Europeia, Luis Manuel Durão Barroso, durante a entrega do Prêmio Nueva Economia Fórum, o qual recebeu no final da VI Cúpula América Latina e Caribe - União Europeia.
source JORNAL DE COMERCIO / Brasil, Porto Alegre, 19 de maio de 2010 : http://jcrs.uol.com.br
European Commission - External Relations : ec.europa.eu/external_relations
Council of the European Union
Herman Van Rompuy President of the European Council
remarks view PDF below
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Argentine Mercosur
Underlining concerns on the Mercosur side, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the Argentine president, said that the negotiations would be difficult because of the “protectionist” leanings of some European nations.
EU - Central America trade deal FTA
The Union, however, did reach a separate trade deal with the Central American nations of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. While that accord is expected to give full and reciprocal access to industrial products
source: nytimes.com
EU-LAC Madrid Summit, 18 May 2010
The VI EU-LAC Summit of Heads of State and Government takes place in Madrid (Spain) on 18 May 2010. In its margins, a series of bilateral mini-Summits are held with specific LAC countries and sub-regions (16 May, Summit with Mexico; 17 May, Summits with Chile and CARIFORUM; 19 May, Summits with the Andean Countries, Central America and Mercosur). Preceding the Summit, EU-LAC Foreign Ministers met on 17 May.
Several preparatory events – some of them co-financed by the Commission – were organised prior to the Summit.
The central theme of the Summit is:
“Towards a new phase of the bi-regional association: innovation and technology for sustainable development and social inclusion”.
The European Commission’s contribution to the Summit is primarily based on the 2009 Commission Communication on Latin America, “The European Union and Latin America: Global Players in Partnership”.
The European opposition is led by France, which is the main beneficiary of the E.U. farming subsidy system, known as the common agricultural policy opposed to such a deal because “the strategic agricultural interests of the European Union are clearly at stake.”
The letter’s other signatories were Austria, Cyprus, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Luxembourg, Poland and Romania.
EU - Mercosur Free trade €5bn - France opposed
On Monday evening, Mr. Zapatero said that the European Union and the Mercosur group of countries — Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay — would resume free trade talks that could add about €5 billion of exports a year.
The meeting was somewhat tainted even before its start by a dispute over the planned attendance of Porfirio Lobo, the president of Honduras. Brazil and others threatened to cancel their Madrid trip if Mr. Lobo attended because his election followed a Honduran military coup last year. Mr. Zapatero was forced into a compromise, with Mr. Lobo not invited for the main session on Tuesday. Still, a handful of Latin American leaders did not attend, including Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.