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Among other attendees, the former president of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Óscar Arias, and the former prime minister of the Spanish Government, Felipe González, will participate in this course.

From the 20th to the 22nd of July, Campus Yuste will become a forum for the analysis, debate and knowledge transfer concerning the challenges faced by the European Union and Latin American relations at global level with the course entitled, “The Challenge of Working Together: EU- Latin America and the Caribbean Relations in the Face of Major Global Challenges”. (18/07/2022)

This course, organised by Yuste Foundation and EU-LAC Foundation, is directed by the executive director of EU-LAC Foundation, Adrián Bonilla, the president of Euroamérica Foundation and member of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste, Ramón Jáuregui, and the head of International Relations of the SEGIB and member of Yuste Foundation’s Board of Trustees, María Salvadora Ortiz.

With the aim of analysing the current situation in relations between the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean through multilateralism, prominent European and Ibero-American personalities, such as the following, will participate: the former president of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Óscar Arias; the former president of the Spanish Government and Carlos V European Award winner, Felipe González; the journalist and director of EsGlobal, Cristina Manzano; the director of the Natural Resources Division of ECLAC, Jeannette Sánchez; the former president of the European Parliament, Enrique Barón; the President of EU-LAC Foundation, Leire Pajín; the State Secretary for Ibero-America and the Caribbean and Spanish in the World of the Spanish Government, Juan Fernández Trigo; the director general for the Americas of the European External Action Service, Brian Glynn; Mexico’s undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, Carmen Moreno; the former president of the Regional Government of Extremadura and member of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste, Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra; the president of the Elcano Royal Institute, José Juan Ruiz, and the former minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, Juan Gabriel Valdés, among others.

The course programme will also seek to answer the question of how to work together in order to address common challenges, including social cohesion, sustainability and fighting climate change, digitization, multilateral institutions and other strategic issues linked to global trends.

The emergence of new emergencies in both Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean as a result of COVID-19 will also be addressed: international financing taking the situation of financial markets and fiscal policies in Latin America and the Caribbean into account; the need to strengthen democracy and the rule of law, and therefore to strengthen States, their institutions and public services; regional integration; ecological and digital disruptions; internal agreements in Latin America and the Caribbean for social dialogue; and the enhancement of State agreements.

The course will take place at the Monastery of San Jerónimo de Yuste, where students can listen and participate in the presentations and round tables and share experiences with the speakers. In addition, Campus Yuste offers an online version of all its courses, thus opening a window to the world with the live broadcast of all its contents. People from Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Haiti, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine and Venezuela have registered for the course “The Challenge of Working Together: EU-Latin America and the Caribbean Relations in the Face of Major Global Challenges”. In addition, all those interested in following the course, can do so via Yuste Foundation’s YouTube channel.

This course, included in Yuste Foundation’s training programme Campus Yuste, which is also part of the University of Extremadura’s International Summer Courses, counts with the sponsorship of MAFRESA and the collaboration of the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB), Euroamérica Foundation, the Regional Government of Extremadura, National Heritage and the provincial councils of Cáceres and Badajoz.