Cooperation of European Union-Mexico for social cohesion

Abstract

The issue of social cohesion encompasses treating problems related to poverty, inequality and social exclusion. Social cohesion is prominent within the EU’s relationship with Latin America, as part of the “strategic partnership” between the two regions. This partnership, which began in 1999 in Rio de Janeiro in 1999, has taken shape in four other peaks (Madrid, 2002; Guadalajara, 2004; Vienna, 2006; Lima, 2008, and Spain, 2010).

Therefore, the Commission, and the EU, remains dedicated, ongoing dialogue with its Latin American partners on social cohesion, which have given priority in all programs of aid and development cooperation for the region as a whole, to the subregions and individual countries in Latin America.

The aim of this paper is to address the European Union’s cooperation with Mexico on social cohesion. This work has been divided into four distinct sections. The first one is to reform development policy of the European Union and the adoption of new financial instruments. In the second one discusses the development cooperation of the EU-Latin America presents a brief overview of cooperative sectorial policies of the EU-LAC for social cohesion, belonging to the sphere of the Cooperation Programme Birregional Eurosocial. In the third section analyzes the European Union’s cooperation under the component of “social cohesion”, from regional programming documents for Latin America (2007-2013) and Mexico (2007-2013), and act followed, in the fourth section focuses on the analysis of the drivers “Dialogues on social cohesion policies EU-Mexico” and the “Social Cohesion Laboratory European Union-Mexico”.