Partners in Crisis: EU Strategic Partnerships and the Global Economic Downturn

The global economic crisis has proved to be a game changer in the EU’s relations with its strategic partners. This ESPO report looks at EU partnerships with Brazil, China, India and the US and finds that bilateral relations struggle to engender convergence at the global level on macroeconomic issues. More political investment is required on all sides, including with a view to striking ambitious trade deals with the US and India and to tackle controversial issues such as market access and capital controls