Assessing the Value and Potential of the Bi-Regional Relationship Between Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, a Few Months Ahead of the 2025 CELAC-EU Summit: Report of the EU-LAC Think Tanks Meeting 2025

This publication, which is part of the EU-LAC Foundation's series of analyses, recommendations and strategic contributions to enrich the bi-regional dialogue and the IV CELAC-EU Summit, contains the main results of the EU-LAC Think Tanks Meeting "Assessing the value and potential of the bi-regional relationship between Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, a few months before the 2025 CELAC-EU Summit".

The EU-LAC Foundation, in cooperation with Carolina Foundation, the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), the University of Copenhagen, the Jacques Delors Institute, the IE University and the Embassy of Colombia in Denmark, convened a two-day dialogue among representatives of Think Tanks in early September 2025 in the context of the Danish Presidency of the Council of the European Union in Copenhagen. The Meeting gathered around 20 researchers from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), as well as from Europe (EU), alongside high-level authorities and representatives from international organisations, with the objective to generate analyses and proposals towards the preparation of the CELAC-EU Summit1 of States and Governments to be held in Santa Marta, Colombia, on 9 and 10 November 2025. Participants, all with recognised expertise in bi-regional relations, discussed key challenges and opportunities for EU–LAC cooperation.