The Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat) is a trans-national body of 150 Parliamentarians from

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and

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. It was established in 2006 to bolster EU-Latin American relations. It was described by

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, the European Union's External Relations Commissioner, as "one of the key bodies in ensuring fruitful cooperation between our two regions."

Organisation

EuroLat is led by a Co-Presidency, the current European Co-President is Ramón Jáuregui Atondo and the Latin American Co-President is José Leonel Vasquéz Búcaro (of

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, Parlacen). There are 14 Co-Vice Presidents, again equally split. The Co-Presidents and the Co-Vice Presidents form the Executive Bureau, the managing body. EuroLat has four standing committees: Political, Security and Human Rights Affairs; Economic, Financial and Trade Affairs; Committee on Social Affairs, Youth and Children, Human Exchanges, Education and Culture and Committee on Sustainable Development, Environment, Energy Policy, Research, Innovation and Technology. There can be a maximum of 2 temporary committees or working groups.

Members

The 150 members are split equally between European and Latin American members, currently drawn from the following bodies; *

European Parliament The European Parliament (EP) is one of the Legislature, legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven Institutions of the European Union, institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and in ...

Andean Parliament The Andean Parliament is the governing and deliberative body of the Andean Community. It was created on October 25, 1979, in La Paz (Bolivia), through the Constitutive Treaty signed by the chancellors of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venez ...

Central American Parliament The Central American Parliament ( es, Parlamento Centroamericano), also known as PARLACEN, is the political institution and parliamentary body of the Central American Integration System (SICA). Its headquarters are in Guatemala City. History ...

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* Parliament of Mercosur *

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Executive Bureau Members from

; * Chair: Javi López (S&D, Spain) * 1st Vice Chair:

Jordi Cañas Pérez Jordi Cañas Pérez ( Barcelona, born 12 December 1969) is a Spanish politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019. He previously was member of the Parliament of Catalonia between 2010 and 2014, during the IX and ...

(RE, Spain) * 2nd Vice Chair:

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(GUE/NGL, Portugal) * 3rd Vice Chair: Hermann Tertsch (ECR, Spain) * 4th Vice Chair: José Manuel García-Margallo (EPP, Spain) * 5th Vice Chair:

Nikos Androulakis Nikos Androulakis ( el, Νίκος Ανδρουλάκης; born 7 February 1979) is a Greek politician and president of the Movement for Change (KINAL) and the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) since 2021. In 2014 and in 2019 he was elected a ...

(S&D, Greece) * 6th Vice Chair: Herbert Dorfmann (EPP, Italy) * 7th Vice Chair: Beata Mazurek (ECR, Poland) Executive Bureau Members from

; * José Manuel Vásquez Búcaro (Parlacen, El Salvador) * Elías Ariel Castillo Gonzalez (Parlatino, Panamá) * Jorge Pizarro Soto (JPC Eu-Chile) * Rabindranath Salazar Solorio (JPC EU-Mexico) * María de los Angeles Higonet (Parlatino, Argentina) * Doreen Javier Ibarra (Parlasur, Uruguay) * José Pedro de la Cruz (Parlandino, Ecuador) * Diego Aquino Acosta Rojas (Parlacen, Dominican Republic)

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Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly
Parliamentary assemblies

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