EU–CELAC relations ahead of the 2025 summit
A strategic partnership has linked the EU and Latin America since their first summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1999. In 2010, 33 Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries decided to merge the Rio Group and the Summit of Latin America and the Caribbean on Development and Cooperation (CALC) into one forum: the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).