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Facade of the Ministry of Economy headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Three people queue while a policeman watches them. A man (in a suit with a briefcase) and a woman (walking in the opposite direction) pass by on the pavement.

Technology and economics

Analysis

The keys to Argentina’s IMF agreement: old wine in a new bottle

By Ernesto Talvi // Posted on 29 Apr 2025

A dark digital panel at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange displays data from the German DAX stock index, with large, bright numbers showing share prices. tariff

Analysis

Trump’s tariff rage and its unforeseen dimensions on the global financial markets

By Ernesto Talvi, Tomás Sanguinetti // Posted on 16 Apr 2025

Detalle de un mapa histórico del continente americano, con tonos tierra y contorno en verde y rojo. Latinobarómetro

Event

Roundtable ‘Latin America, 30 years after the Latinobarómetro’

// Posted on 03 Apr 2025

Chilean citizens vote during the second round of the 2024 regional elections in Santiago (Chile). The building is a metal-structured hall with a vaulted roof and large windows that allow plenty of natural light to enter. In the middle of the room, several voting booths are arranged in the centre of the hall. Latin America

Analysis

Fifty years of economic and political cycles in Latin America: ‘voting with the wallet’ still rules

By Ernesto Talvi, José Pablo Martínez // Posted on 02 Apr 2025

View of the walls and part of the dome of the United Nations General Assembly Hall at the UN Headquarters in New York. Geopolitics

Analysis

The US-China rivalry and Latin American geopolitics: from narrative to data

By Ernesto Talvi, Gabriel Leiva García // Posted on 27 Mar 2025

The President of Argentina, Javier Milei, stands at the centre of Congress, delivering a speech during the opening of the 2025 legislative session. Surrounding him, legislators, officials, and authorities listen attentively to his words. The chamber is distinguished by its red curtains and Argentine flags hanging on the walls, framing the event. Milei plan

Analysis

The Milei plan: collision course or on to the promised land?

By Ernesto Talvi // Posted on 06 Mar 2025

Flags of the European Union (blue with a circle of yellow stars) and Mexico (tricolour with green, white, and red stripes, featuring a coat of arms with an eagle and a serpent) at the 25th Meeting of the Mexico-European Union Joint Parliamentary Committee in 2018. Mexico

Analysis

The new EU-Mexico agreement: the EU fast-tracks integration with Latin America

By Juan Carlos Baker, Antoni Estevadeordal, Ernesto Talvi // Posted on 03 Feb 2025

A series of solar panels installed on a hillside near the city of Ovalle (Chile) set against a rural landscape with distant mountains under the clear blue sky of Monte Patria. Colombia and Chile

Climate and energy

Analysis

Exploring where and how to strengthen EU-LAC cooperation on climate action and the just energy transition: a focus on Colombia and Chile

By Guy Edwards // Posted on 23 Jan 2025

Detail of the Summit of Presidents of the Member States and Associate States of MERCOSUR in Montevideo (Uruguay), where participants are seated around a large conference table in a formal room, with the flags of MERCOSUR countries in the background, on 6 December 2024. EU-Mercosur

Analysis

EU-MERCOSUR: a platform for a new era of transatlantic (and intra-regional Latin American) integration?

By Juan Carlos Berganza, Rodolfo G. Campos, Antoni Estevadeordal, Ernesto Talvi, Jacopo Timini // Posted on 14 Jan 2025

Second-generation ethanol production plant at Bonfim Bioenergy Park, Guariba, São Paulo, with heavy machinery in the foreground. Mercosur-EU agreement

Climate and energy

Experts Comment

The Mercosur-EU agreement as a model for open decarbonisation

By Gonzalo Escribano // Posted on 07 Jan 2025

Low view of the façade of the building of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic with a blue and white Argentine flag flying under a clear sky. Stabilisation plan

Analysis

The Argentine stabilisation plan: a complex work of monetary and exchange rate engineering

By Ernesto Talvi, Sofía Harguindeguy // Posted on 19 Dec 2024

From left to right: Javier Milei, Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou, Ursula von der Leyen, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and Santiago Peña in Montevideo (Uruguay), following an agreement reached during the 2024 EU-Mercosur negotiations. In the background, the flags of the European Union and Mercosur can be seen. EU-MERCOSUR Agreement

Technology and economics

Analysis

Twenty-five years later, white smoke for the EU-MERCOSUR Agreement

By Enrique Feás, Carlos Malamud, Federico Steinberg, Ernesto Talvi // Posted on 17 Dec 2024