Bianculli, Andrea C.Brossa, LaiaJordana, Jacint2025-03-112025-03-112025Bianculli AC, Brossa L, Jordana J. European Union-Latin American interregional relations: taking stock and looking ahead. In: Katsikas D, Del Tedesco Lins MA, Ribeiro Hoffmann A, editors. Finance, growth and democracy: connections and challenges in Europe and Latin America in the era of permacrisis. Cham: Springer; c2025. p. 349-70. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-68475-3_21978-3-031-68474-6http://hdl.handle.net/10230/69908The European Union (EU) and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have a long and deep-rooted history of economic and political relations, which has shown fluctuations, due to a diverse combination of structural and agential variables. On the EU side, different mechanisms and strategies have been put in place, at different levels, ranging from bilateral dialogues to formal agreements and interregional summits. Moreover, relations revolve around three main agendas, including political dialogue, cooperation, and trade, and involve a wide array of state and nonstate, private and public actors. The literature on EU–LAC relations is vast and widely scattered across fields, but it often remains limited to examining specific dimensions, either a particular policy area, analytical level, or period. This chapter attempts to move forward by proposing a wider perspective on the interregional relations, based on an analytical policy approach. It introduces a novel database, which provides a mapping of the policy instruments that have been employed by the EU to activate such relations, including the agreements governing the relations between the EU and LAC, and the cooperation programs funded by the EU in LAC. Based on this, the chapter will provide an encompassing insight into how interregional relations have evolved, considering their variations across instruments, policy areas, territorial levels, and over time.application/pdfeng© The Author(s) 2025. This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this chapter are included in the chapter’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the chapter’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder.Unió Europea, Països de la -- Relacions exteriors -- Amèrica LlatinaAmèrica Llatina -- Relacions exteriors -- Unió Europea, Països de lainfo:eu-repo/semantics/bookParthttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68475-3_21info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess