South America Eyes EU-Style Integration
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South American leaders on Wednesday launched a regional integration pact they said would go beyond rhetoric and usher in European-style unity, but only half the future bloc's 12 presidents turned up to sign it.
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LISBON, Oct 21 (IPS) - It took just an eight-hour meeting in the  Portuguese  capital and a 25-line communique to destroy the last  remaining vestiges of  hope, after five years of efforts, of  reaching a free trade agreement  between the European Union and  South America's Mercosur trade bloc before  the current  members of the European Commission step down.
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President Bush is preparing to finish an agreement with Brazil to promote the production and use of ethanol throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Some Spaniards are beginning to ask if a divided workday is compatible with the modern world and Spain's growing integration into Europe.
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Sealing ratification of an EU constitution and the question of terrorism will top the agenda when Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero welcomes French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to a summit meeting Monday.
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Latin American defense ministers debated forming a regional peacekeeping force Tuesday, while the top U.S. defense official urged nations at a hemispheric conference to work together to combat drug trafficking and terrorism.
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Twelve South American nations signed an agreement during a Peruvian summit to form a diplomatic and economic bloc, El Comerico reported Thursday.
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Argentina's president-elect Cristina Kirchner outlines her priorities, include pushing for more regional integration.
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Presidents and high-ranking officials from 12 South American countries gathered in this ancient Inca capital to create a political and economic bloc they hope will put them on a more equal footing with the United States and Europe.
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The European Union said it has offered to eliminate most tariffs for imports of industrial goods and to scrap or reduce agricultural import tariffs from South American trade bloc Mercosur.
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The South American trade bloc Mercosur has made a new offer in a bid to advance stalled trade talks with the European Union and clinch a trans-Atlantic free trade deal by an October deadline.
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Spain is being transformed by a new government, regional pressures and EU integration, writes Katya Adler.
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President Bush opens a week-long tour of Latin America on Thursday aimed at strengthening ties with a region tilting to the left and influenced by the populist appeal of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
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COCHABAMBA, Bolivia  - Bolivia's Evo Morales faces an uphill battle toward revival of South American trade unity along socially responsible lines when he meets with regional leaders in a summit on Friday and Saturday.
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Europe is in a serious tug of war situation. On one side America wants it in its age-old traditional mode of preserving Western Union of Nations through NATO.
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The 12 countries of the South American Community of Nations will allow passport-free travel between them.
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South American leaders agreed Saturday to create a high-level commission to study the idea of forming a continent-wide community similar to the European Union.