- The Brazilian community of Joinville should have presented German businesses with something of a home team advantage.
- After all, the small city in the southern state of Santa Catarina has been an important center of German immigration since the mid-1800s; many of the 600,000 inhabitants have some sort of German ancestry and therefore, optimistic German managers might imagine that some form of loyalty for their historic homeland might translate into lucrative deals.
- This was partially because the COVAX initiative, with its aim of getting vaccines around the world in a just and transparent way, didn’t really work the way EU ministers in Brussels had hoped it would.
EU plans charm offensive in Latin America — but is it too late? 25.08.2022
