By Richard Basas - Latin America Blog - Foreign Policy Association
Tuesday, May 18 3:10 pm EST

Today and tomorrow the Spanish Presidency of the EU will be hosting the 2010 EU-Latin America Summit in Madrid. Since 1999, the Summit has sought to engage Europe and Latin America in increased cultural and trade ties and create a defined relationship between the two regions on a permanent basis. Latin American and European economic interests between the regions hoped to use the Summit to open Latin America beyond America’s backyard and create FTAs between Latin America and the world’s largest economy, that of the European Union.

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