After almost one year of preparation, selection and reviewal, the LACalytics Team publishes “EU-LAC Cooperation in the 21st Century: Combining efforts in a globalised world“. A total of 46 authors from 23 countries participated in the programme. Their work has been extensively published online over the past months. The twelve best contributions are featured in this publication, which manifests the programme´s interregional approach through its trilingual content. For these proposals to be noticed and to influence policy making, we cooperate with senior politicians, entrepreneurs and civil society representatives both via the dialogue in this publication as well as during the LACalytics Conference, taking place from the 22nd to the 25th of October 2016 in Hamburg, Germany. It is against this […]

IFAIR e.V. cordially invites you to attend the concluding panel debate of its LACalytics Programme on “EU-LAC Cooperation in the 21st Century: Combining Efforts in a Globalised World”. LACalytics runs under the patronage of Dieter Lamlé, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the German Federal Foreign Office, and in cooperation with the EU-LAC Foundation. The project aims at fostering the understanding and cooperation between the European Union (EU) and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Since February 2016, 46 young researchers and professionals form the EU and LAC have worked together in bi-regional teams to examine mutual interests and problems in the […]

We are very happy to announce that Dr. Wolf-Ruthart Born has joined our Advisory Board today, as another prominent figure of German and international foreign policy. Dr. Born recently served as Undersecretary of State or Europe, political relations and the United Nations between 2009 and 2011. After postings in Sudan and Buenos Aires, Dr. Born was responsible for bilateral relations to all western European countries including Turkey and the negotiations for the Schengen-Agreement at the Federal Chancellery. He later represented Germany as ambassador to Mexico, Turkey and Spain. Read his full biography Dr. Born met members of IFAIR last year […]

It’s finally here: IFAIR’s annual report 2015 – more on time, prettier and more informative than ever before. The report is available right now. With all info, facts and data about IFAIR and our projects during the past year. Enjoy reading! Author IFAIR View all posts

To conclude IFAIR’s 2nd EU-ASEAN Perspectives Dialogue, 17 young experts came to Brussels to talk about current affairs in interregionalism with stakeholders from both regions. Our delegation report provides insights into the debates. With participants from countries as diverse as France, Poland, Indonesia and Vietnam, the delegation brought together a diverse group of people. The participants had discussed challenges and prospects of EU-ASEAN cooperation in an online workshop in March and co-authored a Policy Papers on this topic (read more on the project hier). In Brussels, they presented their findings to a variety of institutions, ranging from the EU Commission […]