Tag: Josep Borrell

• Saturday, April 29th 2023 - 10:41 UTC

  Borrell and Petro discuss peace process

  

  Colombian President Gustavo Petro, and the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, gathered in Bogota's Casa de Nariño Friday to discuss the ongoing peace process in the South American country and other bilateral issues. Borrell also announced donations of € 26 million.

• Sunday, March 26th 2023 - 14:32 UTC

  Borrell warns lithium can make Latin America the “new Persian Gulf”

  

  The European Union's High Representative for Foreign Policy Josep Borrell said during an interview in Santo Domingo where he is attending the XXVIII Ibero-American Summit that Latin America is underestimated when it has the potential of becoming the “new Persian Gulf.”

• Wednesday, October 26th 2022 - 09:06 UTC

  EU's top diplomat holds talks with Argentine officials

  

  The European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell was welcomed Tuesday by Argentine President Alberto Fernández at Casa Rosada to discuss the fate of the free trade agreement with Mercosur signed in June 2019 and still pending ratification.

• Monday, October 24th 2022 - 19:14 UTC

  Josep Borrell meets with Uruguayan President in Montevideo

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou, who holds the pro-tempore presidency of Mercosur, Monday welcomed European Union (EU) High Representative Josep Borrell in Montevideo to discuss the future of the agreement between the two trade blocs.

• Tuesday, September 6th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Uruguayan FM off to brokering Mercosur deal approval with EU

  

  Uruguayan Foreign Minister Francisco Bustillo is off on a European tour seeking to further develop his country's trade ties as the last inflation index showed the government of President Luis Lacalle Pou was already above its 2022 targets.

• Wednesday, July 20th 2022 - 10:39 UTC

  EU eyes CELAC for food; Mercosur “a more complicated issue”

  

  Josep Borrell, the European Union's top diplomat, has said Latin America would host a CELAC meeting sometime next year, but admitted that ratifying the 2019 trade agreement with Mercosur was “a more complicated issue.”

• Tuesday, May 17th 2022 - 10:03 UTC

  Spain calls for a quick ratification of EU trade agreements with Chile, Mexico and Mercosur, but what else is needed?

  

  Spanish foreign minister Jose Manuel Albares called on his EU peers on Monday to definitively advance in the ratification of the trade accords of the European Union with Chile, Mexico and Mercosur.

• Wednesday, November 3rd 2021 - 09:02 UTC

  Peru's President open to more European, Chinese cooperation

  

  Peru's President Pedro Castillo Terrones told a European Union envoy Tuesday that his administration was offering right conditions for responsible investments in the country.

• Wednesday, August 4th 2021 - 08:27 UTC

  EU sanctions more Nicaraguan leaders including First Lady and vice-president

  

  The 27 countries of the European Union imposed new sanctions against eight Nicaraguan leaders responsible for the deterioration of democracy in the country's institutions and for repression against the opposition. The list includes the Nicaraguan vice president and First Lady, Rosario Murillo. Juan Carlos Ortega head of the official television channel, the chief of Police, and the president of the National Assembly.

• Tuesday, November 10th 2020 - 09:38 UTC

  EU extols Biden's victory, “we will work with a president who does not consider us a foe”

  

  The European Union's foreign policy chief on Monday extolled Joe Biden's victory in the U.S. election and, in a swipe at outgoing President Donald Trump, welcomed “the chance to work once again with a U.S. president who doesn't consider us a foe.”