ABSTRACT
The main aim of this chapter is to analytically link the different empirical chapters and its analytical elements together and to offer a conclusion on what insights this provides for our comprehension of the EU’s behaviour in complex Association Agreement negotiations. In doing so, it is able to point to the effects that issues such as the constant reorganization of the EU’s bureaucracy have had on the EU’s negotiation position over time. It also separately highlights the main analytical insights individually and assesses their importance. It thereby points to the importance of divergent positions between individual institutional actors, the issue of disruption of decision-making processes, as well policy inertia related to the mere duration of the EU’s Association Agreement negotiations. Before offering some avenues for future research, it also outlines what this book contributes empirically to the study of EU–Latin American relations, as well as EU interregionalism.
