{"id":99557,"date":"2026-07-08T13:13:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T11:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/power-shift.de\/?post_type=pressemitteilung&p=99557"},"modified":"2026-07-08T13:14:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T11:14:26","slug":"eu-parlament-gibt-gruenes-licht-fuer-weiteres-handelsabkommen-mit-lateinamerika","status":"publish","type":"pressemitteilung","link":"https:\/\/power-shift.de\/en\/pressemitteilung\/eu-parlament-gibt-gruenes-licht-fuer-weiteres-handelsabkommen-mit-lateinamerika\/","title":{"rendered":"In the shadow of the World Cup - EU Parliament gives the green light for further trade agreements with Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"

80+ organisations called for a halt to the EU-Mexico trade agreement \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Berlin, 8 July 2026: While the World Cup is still underway in Mexico, European MPs today voted in favour of a trade agreement between the Latin American country and the EU that subordinates environmental protection and human rights to unilateral corporate interests.<\/p>\n

In a statement, more than 80 civil society organisations from Latin America and the EU called on European elected officials not to respond to geopolitical pressure with a bad trade agreement. This only deepens the unequal relations between the economic areas. Sustainable development, misrepresentation!<\/p>\n

Bettina M\u00fcller, Trade and Investment Policy Officer at Berlin-based NGO PowerShift, explains:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe EU-Mexico trade agreement lags significantly behind other agreements recently concluded by the EU with countries in the region. \u00a0Instead of a real modernization, the privileges for corporations were extended above all. Environmental and human rights standards remain non-binding, while companies receive very specific access rights, e.g. in the area of public tenders in Mexico. At the same time, tariffs on agricultural products will be further reduced. This weakens smallholder agriculture in Mexico. The agreement also makes it easier for European companies to access Mexican raw materials. These are just a few of the reasons why PowerShift and numerous other organizations agree: This agreement is not modern, but has fallen out of time. It deepens existing inequalities between economic areas and is poisonous to the environment and our climate. We need more cooperation with Mexico, but not in the form of this unfair and harmful trade agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jan K\u00f6nigshausen, speaker for Indigenous Peoples from the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) adds:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe EU celebrates the new free trade agreement with Mexico as a forward-looking step in economic cooperation. In doing so, it ignores the resulting social and environmental costs. European businesses are benefiting, indigenous communities are increasingly being pushed out of their territories. At the same time, the ecological diversity of the coastal area suffers. The Yoreme-Mayo in the Mexican state of Sinaloa tirelessly defend their territory against the construction of an ammonia factory of the Swiss-German company Proman in Topolobampo. The agreement legitimizes the exploitation of resources in a sustainable way. Indigenous peoples are confronted with the loss of their territories, the endangerment of their ways of life and livelihoods. Communities that oppose it are intimidated.\u201d<\/p>\n

The full statement against the agreement can be found here: <\/strong>https:\/\/europeantradejustice.org\/stop-the-modernised-global-and-free-trade-agreement-between-the-european-union-and-mexico\/ \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

For interviews and questions, please do not hesitate to contact us: <\/strong>Bettina M\u00fcller, 0174 4537605, bettina.mueller@power-shift.de<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

80+ organisations called for an end to the EU-Mexico trade agreement Berlin, 8 July 2026: While the World Cup is still underway in Mexico, European MPs today voted in favour of a trade agreement between the Latin American country and the EU that subordinates environmental protection and human rights to unilateral corporate interests. More than 80 civil society organisations from Latin America and the EU called on the European elected representatives in a \u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":99558,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"tags":[9,10,270],"thema":[15],"coauthors":[457],"class_list":["post-99557","pressemitteilung","type-pressemitteilung","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-eu","tag-handelsabkommen","tag-mexiko","thema-handelspolitik","entry","has-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/power-shift.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pressemitteilung\/99557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/power-shift.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pressemitteilung"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/power-shift.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pressemitteilung"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/power-shift.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/power-shift.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/power-shift.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/power-shift.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99557"},{"taxonomy":"thema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/power-shift.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thema?post=99557"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/power-shift.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=99557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}