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EU REFORM WILL AFFECT LATIN AMERICA AS WELL
Joaquin Roy
NOVEMBER 2007 (IPS) - The current state of the European Union since approval of the Reform
Treaty could affect integration processes in the rest of the world and
especially in the Americas, writes Joaquin Roy, 'Jean Monnet'
professor and Director of the European Union Centre of the University of Miami.
In this analysis, the author writes that once again the European
constitutional impasse has revived Latin America's sense that the true
reason underlying the "no" vote by France and Netherlands in 2005 was the fear of a "loss" of sovereignty. This fear is deeply rooted in
the Latin American imagination and has been identified as a threat to
nationalist centralism.
The need to focus on correcting the negative impact of the French and
Dutch ''no'' and the subsequent compromise of the Reform Treaty
suggest that the EU's priorities in the future will be directed more
inward than outward, and towards the strengthening of its natural
limits. Those alarmed by the lack of interest in distant areas of the
planet argue, therefore, that Latin America is a sure candidate for
future cuts in Official Development Assistance, though current
assistance levels have been approved and are locked in through 2014.
/NOT FOR PUBLICATION IN AUSTRALIA, CANADA, NEW ZEALAND, CZECH
REPUBLIC, IRELAND, POLAND, SPAIN, UNITED STATES, OR UNITED KINGDOM/ (END/2007)
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