EU-CELAC Partnership Under Pressure in a New Global Order
December 2025 “A Partnership Under Pressure: Making EU–CELAC Cooperation Work in a New Global Order” Authored by: Maurico Bôhl Gutiérrez
Collective Thinking forGlobal Development
Independent by nature
Aiming at informing and influencing European and international cooperation
International cooperation
Coordinating and facilitating multi-stakeholder dialogue
400 researchers
Distributed across our 6 member institutes to facilitate, produce and disseminate evidence-based knowledge and innovation
Sustainable innovation
Connecting policy-relevant research with EU policymaking and implementation
Working
on a global scale
In the 15 years of its existence ETTG members have extended to 7 European states. Additionally, ETTG has built partnerships with a diversity of governmental, inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations and leading think tanks in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe.
Cities that ETTG has directly presented or organised events in the framework of a project.
Geographic areas that have been subject to ETTG analysis.
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ETTG Board of Directors January 2026
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The post-FfD4 Agenda on Financing for Development
We hosted alongside Elcano Royal Institute, with the support of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation
Webinar on Reconstruction in Larger Terms: Ukraine and MENA
How do we rebuild amidst ongoing volatility? This was the central question of our recent discussion, “Reconstruction in Larger Terms,”
Collective action
for greater impact
The strength of ETTG is based on the multidisciplinary expertise of over 400 researchers, covering the EU’s comprehensive external action and international cooperation agenda. ETTG members share a strong belief in collective action to achieve global public goods. As independent think tanks, ETTG members systematically connect with the policymaking world at the level of the EU institutions and member states, with a broad range of civil society actors, through practical research and analysis, and by organising debates, workshops and high-level events.
- Development Finance
- Digital Transitions
- EU-Africa Relations
- EU-Latin America relations
- Food systems transformation
- Green and just transition
- Peace, security and governance
"We analyse and translate the relations between the EU and the South, from policy formulation to implementation.
We provide policy-oriented analyses offering recommendations that take into account trade-offs and dilemmas in development decisions."
Iliana Olivié
ETTG Director
Our projects
ETTG-GIZ-Enabel Project on Navigating Engagement in Fragile Contexts
Timeline: October 2024 – 2025 The ETTG-GIZ-Enabel partnership will explore strategic engagement in fragile global contexts, focusing on development agencies’ approaches to challenging political environments. Through comprehensive research, policy paper
A Stronger EU-LAC Partnership: A Focus on Shared Challenges
This ETTG project, in collaboration with the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, examined key issues in EU-Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) relations.