Les relations économiques entre l’Amérique latine et la communauté européenne : internationalisation, régionalisation et coopération

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The author presents an analysis of the main tendencies that characterise the recent development of the world economy : productive internationalisation, market globalisation, regionalisation, in order to situate in this context the evolution of economic relations between Latin America and the European Community for the past ten years. On the basis of this interpretation, the author analyses questions that, according to him, should compose the economic agenda of relations between the two regions for the coming years : the conditions of access of Latino-American exported goods to the Community market, the foreign debt, the flow of investments, the impact of privileged relations with the countries of Eastem Europe and environmental matters. For all these questions, there appears to be convergence of interests that can be materialized as groups of cooperation, but also differences liable of declining into more or less declared conflicts. Finally, an essential question refers to the role that Europe will or will not want to play in the process of Latin America’s reinsertion in the world economy, either by accepting the consequences of the struggle for power expressed through the « market rules », or by recognizing Latin America as having the status of a responsible and active partner that it claims on the international scene.