2022: 14th session
14th Eurolat plenary session in Buenos Aires (Argentina) from 11-14 April 2022
The 14th EuroLat plenary session took place in Buenos Aires (Argentina) from 11-14 April 2022.
The Eurolat Members discussed the follow up to the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean, its economic and social consequences and the road to recovery under the title of "A fair and inclusive economic recovery in peace". The pandemic has led to unprecedented losses of lives, a deep economic downturn, and had a profound negative impact on employment, poverty, education, public health and living conditions in both regions.
This meeting was the first occasion for the 150 EuroLat members to meet again in person since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. The Co-Presidents of the EuroLat Assembly, Javi López MEP, President of the European Parliament's Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly, and Oscar Darío Pérez Pineda, President of the Latin American component, co-chaired the plenary meeting, which was held over two days throughout the programme.
The four committees of Eurolat as well as the Working Groups and Fora met in two-hour sessions each. This plenary session was the first time that the Working Group on Food Security and Fight against Hunger met and elected its Chair, after a Eurolat Bureau decision of May 2021. The unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine has further destabilised already fragile agricultural markets which were already under pressure due to the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change. As a result, agriculture all over the world is under pressure with potential implications about global food security.
The Eurolat Chair, Mr Javi López, had invited the Vice-President of the Argentinian Republic and President of the Honourable Senate of the Nation, Ms Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, as well as other high-level speakers for this plenary session.The following resolutions were adopted:
- Cooperation on criminal justice in the EU and Latin America
- Culture as a means of promoting relations between the EU and LAC countries
- Circular Economy
- The impact of COVID-19 on women (urgency resolution)
- EuroLat Assembly: hate speech, circular economy and food security
- EP Press Release of 13 April 2022 on the inauguration of the Assembly (only in Spanish)
- Video Message by Roberta Metsola, EP President, at the closing of the 14th Plenary Session
- Video Message by Josep Borrell Fontelles, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, at the closing of the 14th Plenary Session
- EP Press Release of 14 April 2022 on the Declaration of the Co-Presidents (only in Spanish)
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Declaration of the CoPresidents of 14 April 2022 EN(PDF - 30 KB) ES(PDF - 30 KB) FR(PDF - 33 KB) DE(PDF - 33 KB) PT(PDF - 28 KB)
- Adopted Resolutions