La relance du Mercosur. Ouro Preto II ou le temps des réformes politiques
Olivier Dabène
A Fresh Start for Mercosur: Ouro Preto II,
or the Onset of Political Reforms
Despite recurrent trade disputes among member states, the
political aspect of Mercosur is making headway. The arrival in power of progressive forces in favor of integration in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay has
enabled the integration process, severely hampered by Argentina’s economic
crisis in 2001, to get a fresh start. The Mercosur Parliament, set up by the
27th Mercosur summit on December 17, 2004, to be inaugurated in 2006,
will probably prove not to be the instrument for a democratization of the
integration process imagined by the Technical Secretariat, a veritable “political
entrepreneur” created within Mercosur in 2003, but it will enable politicians
of the various Mercosur member states to participate more fully and
will especially breathe new life into the political aspect of integration.
• Le moment politique
• L’émergence d’un véritable entrepreneur politique
• Quelle réforme politique ?
• Démocratiser le Mercosur