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Lead | AFET | SALAFRANCA SÁNCHEZ-NEYRA José Ignacio (PPE-DE) | |
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Opinion | INTA | MANN Erika (PSE) |
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Results of vote in Parliament
- Results of vote in Parliament
- Debate in Parliament
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T6-0141/2009
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The European Parliament adopted by 463 votes to 20, with 52 abstentions, a European Parliament recommendation to the Council on an EU-Mexico Strategic Partnership.The resolution recalls that Mexico and the EU share a set of fundamental values, common principles and historical and cultural links. Mexico is increasingly consolidating its political weight on the international stage. The country has a population of over 100 million with a marked preponderance of youth given that 45% of Mexicans are under 20 years of age, and occupies an important geostrategic position as a bridge both between North and South America and between the Caribbean and the Pacific.Mexico has become the world's tenth-largest economy, a member of the G20 and of the G5 (Brazil, China, India, South Africa and Mexico), and is, furthermore, the only Latin American member of the OECD. Moreover, multilateralism is one of the basic principles which Mexico and the EU have undertaken to promote in the international sphere.The Economic Partnership, Political Coordination and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and Mexico - the Global Agreement - signed on 8 December 1997 has three pillars: political dialogue, the gradual creation of a free-trade area, and cooperation. Since that agreement came into force in 2000, relations between the two sides have been marked by deepening and consolidation, both politically and in the trade and cooperation fields.The Parliament hopes that a future Strategic Partnership will mark a qualitative leap in EU-Mexico relations, both multilaterally in terms of issues of world importance and that it will give a new impetus to the EU-Mexico Global Agreement in its various aspects – political (including human rights), security, anti-drugs trafficking, environmental, cooperation (technical and cultural) and socio-economic.MEPs makes the following recommendations, among others, in relation to the Strategic Partnership:institutionalising annual EU-Mexico summits, as is already the case for those with the USA, Russia, China and Brazil;a trade chapter to be based on like-for-like treatment, solidarity, dialogue and respect for the specific characteristics of Mexico and of the EU; support for the Mexican Government and President Calderón in their vital work of cleaning up certain institutions of the State and for the fight against corruption;support for the Mexican government in its contributions to the work of the UN and in its fight against drug trafficking, international terrorism and organised crime;fight feminicide in both regions, on a basis of dialogue, cooperation and the exchange of best practices;closer coordination of positions on crisis situations and issues of world importance, on the basis of shared interests and concerns;clear guidelines on how best to ensure close cooperation with a view to promoting effective multilateralism, while also tackling, in the framework of international law, common threats to peace and security such as trafficking in drugs and arms, organised crime, terrorism and human trafficking;an opportunity to debate how to make the human rights and democracy clause function more effectively and to evaluate compliance with it;the creation of a Mexico-EU Civil Society Forum, the recommendations of which must be taken into account wherever possible;fresh impetus to the bilateral relationship as well as the expansion and improvement of cooperation programmes such as the Integral Support Programme for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (PIAPYME);The Parliament recommends that Mexico should become a permanent member of the new financial and economic international architecture of the G20. Moreover, it urges that more coherent efforts be made to promote scientific and technological transfer, with a view to boosting real cooperation in fighting climate change and improving environmental protection.MEPs wish to see further progress in developing a comprehensive and structured dialogue on migration, both legal and illegal, and call on the Joint Council to consider the timeliness of establishing, inter alia, an agreement on an immigration policy between the two parties.Lastly, they call for the reaffirmation of the commitments for attainment of the Millennium Development Goals and for renewed awareness of the need for close cooperation in the areas of social cohesion, gender equality, climate change, sustainable development, the fight against international terrorism, drug trafficking and organised crime, food security, and the fight against poverty.
- 2009/02/17 Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
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2009/01/21
Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
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2008/12/18
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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2008/09/15
Non-legislative basic document published
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B6-0437/2008
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Pursuant to Rule 114(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament, José Ignacio SALAFRANCA SÁNCHEZ-NEYRA (EPP-ED, ES), on behalf of the EPP-ED, has drafted a proposal for a recommendation on the EU-Mexico Strategic Partnership. To recall the EU-Mexico Strategic Partnership, which entered into force in 2000, is founded on three pillars: political dialogue, the ongoing establishment of a free trade area and cooperation. Since 2004, the institutions of the European Union and country-Mexico have been stepping up their high-level contacts and deepening their relations. MEPs consider, however, that the Partnership should also be based on a certain number of other elements that can be summarised as follows: the Partnership should form part of the bi-regional approach to and the global view of relations between the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean, on the basis of a bi-regional Strategic Partnership; political dialogue arising from the EU-Mexico Strategic Partnership should provide a real boost for relations with and between the various regional integration processes, the safeguarding of the values and concerns of the Strategic Association, and the strengthening of multilateralism in the sphere of international relations; the EU-Mexico Strategic Partnership should provide real added value both in relation to the provisions of the current Association Agreement; it should allow for better coordination between the partners in the various international fora and institutions; it should encourage effective multilateralism and strengthen the United Nations' ability to maintain and consolidate peace, and to tackle common threats to peace and security, including trafficking in drugs and arms, organised crime, terrorism and the mafias which profit from illegal immigration, in keeping with the Lima Declaration; it should encourage the provision of regular information to the European Parliament and the Euro-Latin-American Parliamentary Assembly.
- DG External Relations, FERRERO-WALDNER Benita
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B6-0437/2008
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Documents
- Non-legislative basic document published: B6-0437/2008
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A6-0028/2009
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T6-0141/2009
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2008/2289(INI)
2008/12/08
INTA
7 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas Mexico has embarked on a scheme of structural reforms in strategic sectors and has become the world's tenth economic power,
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Recital A b (new) Ab. whereas Mexico's strategic situation and its network of trade agreements mean that this country is of great strategic importance for European exports, the European Union being its second source of foreign investment,
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Recital D D. whereas
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Recital D D. whereas immigration, inter alia, is one of the most important and most sensitive issues for Mexico, and in view of the quantity and quality of Mexican immigrants in the European Union,
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Highlights the positive effects that the application of the Global Agreement has had for both parties, with an increase in bilateral trade of more than 100% being recorded;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Underlines that the EU-Mexico Strategic Partnership
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Joint Council, on the basis of the Future Developments Clause, under Article 43 of the Global Agreement, to consider the timeliness of establishing, inter alia, an agreement on an immigration policy between the two parties, in particular as it concerns Mode 4 procedures.
source: PE-416.596
2008/12/17
AFET
39 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a recommendation Citation 2 a (new) – having regard to its resolution of 11 October 2007 on the murder of women (feminicide) in Mexico and Central America and the role of the European Union in fighting the phenomenon1,
Amendment 10 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital G e (new) Ge. whereas the human rights and democracy clause, as an integral part of the Association Agreement, must not just be a principle, but must also be an instrument and must be applied by both parties,
Amendment 11 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital G f (new) Gf. whereas non-profit civil society organisations are calling for the creation of mechanisms and bodies so that they can be formally included in the bilateral relations,
Amendment 12 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital I a (new) Ia. whereas the processes of political and economic integration, the increasing spread of economic globalisation and the importance of the debate on democracy, human rights and the environment, inter alia, have changed the priorities in the agenda of both regions,
Amendment 13 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital I a (new) Amendment 14 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 − point b b) favours institutionalising
Amendment 15 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 − point c c) trusts that the Strategic Partnership will give a new impetus to the EU-Mexico Global Agreement in its various aspects – political, security, anti-drug trafficking, environmental and socio-economic;
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 − point c c) trusts that the Strategic Partnership will give a new impetus to the EU-Mexico Global Agreement in its various aspects - political, security, technical and cultural cooperation, environmental and socio- economic;
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 − point c c) trusts that the Strategic Partnership will give a new impetus to the EU-Mexico Global Agreement in its various aspects - political (including human rights), security, environmental and socio- economic;
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 − point c a (new) ca) wants the trade chapter to be based on like-for-like treatment, solidarity, dialogue and respect for the specific characteristics of Mexico and the European Union;
Amendment 19 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 − point c a (new) ca) reiterates its support for the Mexican Government and President Calderón in their vital work to clean up certain institutions of the State, in the Federal District and in other parts of the country, in which the level of corruption and functional and organisational disarray are not only affecting Mexico’s prestige but also threatening the normal institutional development of the State and often leaving society unprotected;
Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a recommendation Citation 12 bis (new) – having regard to its resolution of 23 January 2006 on the human rights and democracy clause in European Union agreements,
Amendment 20 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 − point c a (new) ca) calls for the EU-Mexico Strategic Partnership to focus on the problems that have been accumulating and intensifying since the Association Agreement entered into force, beginning with programmes to fight impunity and the violation of human rights, with a strong gender component, in order to build up an independent judicial system;
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 − point e e) wishes to see clear guidelines on how best to ensure close cooperation with a view to promoting effective multilateralism and reinforcing the UN's capacities for preserving and consolidating peace, while also tackling, in the framework of international law, common threats to peace and security such as trafficking in drugs and arms, organised crime, terrorism and
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 − point e e) wishes to see clear guidelines on how best to ensure close cooperation with a view to promoting effective multilateralism and reinforcing the UN's capacities for preserving and consolidating peace, while also tackling, in the framework of international law, common threats to peace and security such as trafficking in drugs and arms, organised crime, terrorism and
Amendment 23 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 − point e e) wishes to see clear guidelines on how best to ensure close cooperation with a view to promoting effective multilateralism and reinforcing the UN's capacities for preserving and consolidating peace and ensuring respect for human rights, while also tackling, in the framework of international law, common threats to peace and security such as trafficking in drugs and arms, organised crime, terrorism and the mafias which profit from illegal immigration, in line with the Lima Declaration;
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 − point e a (new) ea) believes that the reinforced partnership offers an opportunity for discussion on how to make the human rights and democracy clause more operational, including by developing the positive dimension of the clause, which entails the need to take effective measures to contribute to the enjoyment of human rights within and by the respective parties, to provide for an ongoing assessment and monitoring of the implementation of the agreement as regards the enjoyment of human rights and to adopt a human rights approach when implementing all aspects of the agreement;
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 − point e b (new) eb) calls for the human rights clause to be extended so that it is included in the next sectorial agreements between the EU and Mexico;
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 − point f f) expresses, in this connection, its support for the Mexican government in its contributions to the work of the UN and in its fight against drug trafficking and organised crime, in particular with regard to the growing numbers of victims of drug trafficking and consumption;
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 − point f f) expresses, in this connection, its support for the Mexican government in its contributions to the work of the UN and in its fight against drug trafficking, international terrorism and organised crime;
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 − point f a (new) fa) trusts that this Strategic Partnership will help to end the murder of women (femicides), stonings, sexual mutilations and other forms of physical aggression towards women and to fully guarantee the sexual and reproductive rights of women;
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 − point f a (new) Amendment 3 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital A a (new) Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 − point g a (new) ga) in particular, calls for strengthened cooperation and progress by the two state parties on crucial human rights issues such as the rights of indigenous people and minorities, migrants' rights, labour rights – and in particular ratification of ILO Convention 169 –, violence and discrimination against women, respect for civil liberties in the context of the fight against organised crime and protection of human rights defenders;
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 − point g a (new) ga) suggests setting up a Joint Advisory Committee and a Social Observatory to give non-profit civil society organisations a formal and structured chance to assess the impacts of measures in the context of the Strategic Partnership in social, human rights, environmental and economic aspects and to make appropriate recommendations;
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 − point h h) stresses the role of the Strategic Partnership as an instrument that should help reinforce cooperation between the parties in international forums, such as the World Bank, the IMF, the OECD, the G-20 and the G8+G5, with a view to seeking solutions to the world financial crisis and launching a joint response aimed at restoring confidence in the financial institutions, in line with the San Salvador Declaration;
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 − point h a (new) ha) regrets that the EU has used the EU- Mexico Global Agreement as a stepping stone to enter the US market, thus further contributing to the destruction of the industrial fabric of Mexico, and considers that it is necessary to reverse the negative effects of the EU-Mexico Global Agreement, particularly on small businesses and decent jobs; therefore calls for the internal industrial fabric to be reconstructed as a matter of urgency;
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 − point i i) emphasises the need to establish common ground with a view to devising an ambitious strategy for fighting climate change, with a view to the UN Conference on Climate Change to be held in 2009 in Copenhagen and the achievement of a global agreement;
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 − point i a (new) ia) urges more coherent efforts to promote scientific and technological transfer, with a view to boosting real cooperation in fighting climate change and improving environment protection;
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 − point j Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 − point k k) calls for the reaffirmation of the MDG commitments and for renewed awareness of the need for close cooperation in the field of social cohesion, gender equality, climate change, sustainable development, the fight against international terrorism, drug trafficking and organised crime, food security and the fight against poverty;
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 − point l l) believes there must be a regular flow of information from the EU institutions and the Mexican government to the E
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 − point l l) believes there must be a regular flow of information from the EU institutions and the Mexican government to the EP
Amendment 4 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital F a (new) Fa. whereas at the Lima Summit (May 2008) the European Union and Mexico underlined the positive development in trade and investment flows under the Association Agreement,
Amendment 5 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital F a (new) Fa. whereas the legally binding character of the human rights and democracy clause must be respected,
Amendment 6 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital G a (new) Ga. whereas at the same time the economic and social gap has widened, the trade balance has reversed and is now firmly in the European Union’s favour, European direct investment is heavily focused on a few sectors, with few links to local economies and creating few jobs, and there is an urgent need to develop jobs and encourage small and medium- sized enterprises,
Amendment 7 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital G b (new) Gb. whereas the analysis of the reasons for the crisis and the problems of structural weakness and lack of security prevailing in the country are set out in the European Union’s Country Strategy Paper 2007-2013 on Mexico,
Amendment 8 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital G c (new) Amendment 9 #
Proposal for a recommendation Recital G d (new) Gd. whereas the many recommendations made by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Mexico have still not been implemented,
source: PE-416.392
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