Since 2010, the main economic and political relationships between Latin America, the Caribbean and the EU, are channeled through the EU-CELAC
Summits (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States).
The EU is the first investor in Hispanic America and the Caribbean
The EU is the second trading partner in the region, behind the United States and followed by China
Brazil and Mexico are the main EU
trading partners in the CELAC region
GDP
The EU: 17.5% of the world's GDP (13.5 Billions Euros)
CELAC: 8.8% of the world's GDP (4.6 Billions Euros).
The main CELAC economies are Brazil and Mexico
Total population of the 61 countries EU-CELAC (Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean) is 1,000 million people (15%
of the world's population)
EU-CELAC countries represent about one-third of the UN
The MERCOSUR Countries (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay), Cuba and Bolivia, have no trade agreements with the EU. Although the agreement with the MERCOSUR has been under negotiation for many years.
The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC)
The Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago
Languages of the CELAC region: Spanish, English, French, Portuguese and Dutch