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"Mr President, Latin America is a real presentational problem for committed Euro-integrationists. Here is a region with great cultural and linguistic homogeneity, and there is a political unity of outlook. In every capital city, you will find statues of Simon Bolivar; you will find the same legal system; you find cultural inter-changeability; people watch each other’s abominable soap operas; they are able to understand each other – even the Brazilians can understand South American Spanish although, rather unfairly, the reverse is not true – and yet they remain independent countries, despite the best efforts of the European Union which has been pouring money into regional cooperation and integration projects. It has done so even to the extent of refusing to sign trade and aid deals with individual states, insisting on block-to-block cooperation.
In fact, whereas the EU takes heterogeneity of nations and creates common political institutions, South America is the opposite. Now guess which one is growing; guess which one has the more successful rates at the moment, despite some of the far Left governments there at the moment. There is a lesson there which is that prosperity comes from competition, diversity, variety and pluralism."@en1
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