The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) is a regional political coordination mechanism, which gathers all 33 Latin American and Caribbean countries. CELAC is the EU's official counterpart for the region-to-region political dialogues (including Summits) of this strategic partnership. Currently Colombia holds the Pro-Tempore Presidency (PPT) of CELAC this year and hosted the IV CELAC-EU Summit in Santa Marta on 09 and 10 November 2025 that approved a Joint Summit Declaration. In the Summit in Colombia, leaders of the EU and of both regions’ countries discussed a wide range of issues to deepen the bi-regional partnership.

Bi-regional initiatives are taking place in many sectors, including through the implementation of a EU-CELAC Roadmap 2023-2025. Work on a new bi-regional Roadmap progressed and is expected to be completed in the coming months.

Previous bi-regional Summits took place in Santiago de Chile in 2013, in Brussels in 2015 and in 2023. Joint work has expanded since then on a wide range of areas of common interest.