On Sunday 30 and Monday 31 October, the vast majority of European leaders welcomed on social networks the election of former trade unionist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as Brazil’s for a third time, following his mandates from 2003 to 2010, thus turning the page on ‘Jair Bolsonaro’, whose presidency since January 2019 has been a low point in relations between Brazil and the European Union.
These leaders hope that Lula’s return to the helm of Latin America’s largest economy will be...