Officials foresee greater BRICS coordination

The European Union and the United Sates should work to foster cooperation among the countries collectively known as the BRICS to redevelop international governance and effectively deal with the difficulties facing the world, say senior European politicians and scholars.

Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, the former vice-president of the European Parliament and now a member of that body, has been asking the EU's executive arm to foster more coordination among the 27 EU member states in response to the increasing policy coordination seen among the BRICS countries, which are Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

The BRICS have been coordinating their positions on issues such as climate change, global regulations, the access to raw materials, terrorism, sustainable development, political stability and security. They take their meeting in India this week as an opportunity to make their stances on these issues public again.