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View of the walls and part of the dome of the United Nations General Assembly Hall at the UN Headquarters in New York. Geopolitics

The US-China rivalry and Latin American geopolitics: from narrative to data

By Ernesto Talvi, Gabriel Leiva García // Posted on 27 Mar 2025

A series of solar panels installed on a hillside near the city of Ovalle (Chile) set against a rural landscape with distant mountains under the clear blue sky of Monte Patria. Colombia and Chile

Climate and energy

Exploring where and how to strengthen EU-LAC cooperation on climate action and the just energy transition: a focus on Colombia and Chile

By Guy Edwards // Posted on 23 Jan 2025

Detail of the Summit of Presidents of the Member States and Associate States of MERCOSUR in Montevideo (Uruguay), where participants are seated around a large conference table in a formal room, with the flags of MERCOSUR countries in the background, on 6 December 2024. EU-Mercosur

EU-MERCOSUR: a platform for a new era of transatlantic (and intra-regional Latin American) integration?

By Juan Carlos Berganza, Rodolfo G. Campos, Antoni Estevadeordal, Ernesto Talvi, Jacopo Timini // Posted on 14 Jan 2025

From left to right: Javier Milei, Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou, Ursula von der Leyen, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and Santiago Peña in Montevideo (Uruguay), following an agreement reached during the 2024 EU-Mercosur negotiations. In the background, the flags of the European Union and Mercosur can be seen. EU-MERCOSUR Agreement

Technology and economics

Twenty-five years later, white smoke for the EU-MERCOSUR Agreement

By Enrique Feás, Carlos Malamud, Federico Steinberg, Ernesto Talvi // Posted on 17 Dec 2024

Participation of Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, at the EU/CELAC 2023 Summit. Global Gateway

Globalization, development and governance

Global Gateway: what we know and what it means for Latin America and the Caribbean

By María Santillán O’Shea, Ernesto Talvi // Posted on 03 Jan 2024

Latin America. Photo composition of the stained-glass window “El nacimiento del hombre” by Héctor Poleo, taken in 1995 at the metro station La Paz in Caracas, Venezuela

Why does Latin America matter?

By Carlos Malamud, José Juan Ruiz, Ernesto Talvi // Posted on 26 Dec 2023

Composed image. On the left, a polluting factory under a blue and white sky in Vienna (Austria). On the right, a wind farm belonging to Copel and Wobben Windpower-Enercon in Palmas (Brazil). Just transition

Climate and energy

Just Transition: Strengthening cooperation between the EU and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)

By Lara Lázaro Touza, Isabel Lara Miranda // Posted on 30 Nov 2023

Panoramic view of the towers on Santa Teresa Avenue in Asunción (Paraguay), where the tower of Itaú Bank, one of the main Latin American banks, stands out

Narrative vs data: the SVB crisis and the resilience of Latin American banks

By José Juan Ruiz, Ernesto Talvi, Judith Arnal // Posted on 09 Oct 2023

Full cover of the Elcano Policy Paper ‘The European Green Deal as a driver of EU-Latin American cooperation’

Climate and energy

The European Green Deal as a driver of EU-Latin American cooperation

By Alina Averchenkova, Lara Lázaro Touza, Gonzalo Escribano, Caroline Prolo, Luis E. Gonzáles-Carrasco, Sandra Guzmán Luna // Posted on 07 Aug 2023

President of the Republic, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva takes office as the 39th president of Brazil, 5 January 2023.

Lula’s foreign policy: normalisation and friction

By Oliver Stuenkel // Posted on 22 Jun 2023