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Under the theme “Ensuring Sustainable Access to Water and Safe Sanitation Systems,” the 39th Summit of the African Union (AU) was held on February 14–15 in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.

Since its first summit sixteen years ago, BRICS has become a powerful bloc: it represents 40% of the world’s population, 30% of the global economy, and 20% of international trade (Saccone 2025).

Matías Mongan, Gate Center collaborator and PhD student at Universidad Nacional La Plata, Argentina.As in his first two terms in office (2003-2011), Lula da Silva seeks to strengthen diplomatic ties with African countries in order to expand Brazil's capacity of...

Author: Susanne Gratius, Academic Coordinator of the Gate Center and Full Professor of International Relations at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM)In these turbulent times, the recent United Nations, Climate and G-20 Future Summits in Brazil shed some light on...

Matías Mongan, Gate Center contributor, journalist and doctoral studentThe 16th BRICS Summit, from 22 to 24 October 2024 in Kazan, was attended by 24 heads of state, including the five countries that officially became part of the group on 1 January: Saudi Arabia, the...

Autora: Lic. María Paula Ballesteros. Gate Center Octubre 2024A few days ago, the Future Summit was held at the United Nations headquarters in New York, the product of months of negotiation and discussion between the main world powers and key civil society actors. The...

Matías Mongan, PhD student, UAM and researcher at the Gate CenterMercosur, created in 1991 by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, faces three challenges for the future: the closing of a quarter of a century of negotiations with the European Union (EU), the entry...

Gate CenterAuthor: Lic. María Paula Ballesteros   ‘...the world needs ‘truly universal’ multilateral institutions‘ and [the Summit of the Future] will be a unique opportunity to help rebuild trust and adapt outdated multilateral institutions and frameworks to...

Gate Center37th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union. The 37th Summit of the African Union, an organisation that brings together 55 countries of the African continent, was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 17 and 18...

Paula Ballesteros
The report written by Paula Ballesteros analyses left-wing governments in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico,…

The report written by Paula Ballesteros analyzes right-wing governments in several countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Uruguay, Paraguay, Guatemala, El Salvador, Ecuador, Costa Ric…

The definition of the ideological spectrum of political parties in Latin America is somewhat blurred in the region and has become increasingly difficult to classify in recent decades. In the report…