Committee on International Trade Ordinary meeting Joint committee procedure - AFET and INTA Committee on Foreign Affairs

23 June 2026

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INTA European Parliament

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01:57 - 05:35
Speaker 1
So, can we please start, dear colleagues?  Good morning.  Good morning.  I know some of the members of AFET... what?  Why cannot you hear? 

So, good morning.  Welcome to this joint voting session of the AFET and INTA committees.  Our topic is the Mexico Modernised Global Agreement.  I hope now technical conditions are good also, and thank you very much for cooperating since some of the colleagues are in a hurry and some of the colleagues will arrive in the following two or three minutes.  I have to start by adoption of the agenda, and if there are no objections, I propose to adopt the agenda without changes as it was sent to you. 

I don't see any remarks, so I go directly to the second point, which is chair's announcements.  And I have to welcome warmly the Ambassador of Mexico to the European Union, who is in this room.  Rogelio Granguillhome.  As many of you know, the Ambassador's assignment in Brussels will come to an end in this month.  On behalf of our AFET and INTA committees, I would like to thank you wholeheartedly for the excellent cooperation over the five years, Ambassador, and your commitment to the modernisation of the EU-Mexico Global Agreement. 

And I think today, after our vote, you will be able to say mission accomplished.  I wish you on behalf of our two committees all the best for those future endeavors.  Point three, adoption of minutes.  The draft minutes of the meeting of 15th of April 2026 will be deemed approved unless there are objections which you can raise until the end of this meeting.  Point number four, and this is the main point of our meeting, conclusion on behalf of the European Union of the Political, Economic and Cooperation Strategic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and its member states on the one part and the United Mexican States on the other part. 

It is a consent vote and also the accompanying interim report.  We have two co-rapporteurs, Javi López from AFET and Borja Jiménez Laras for INTA.  Council submitted his request to Parliament on 28th of May.  We will be required to give our consent before the agreement enters into force.  AFET and INTA have anticipated most of the work and therefore we can vote now on our recommendation to the plenary today. 

It is very swift for us and this is very good for the Parliament and also for the agreement.  Before proceeding the vote, I will briefly pass the floor to the AFET Vice-Chair Hana Jalloul Muro for her introductory remarks.  So please, you have the floor. 
05:35 - 07:29
Speaker 2
Thank you very much, Chair.  Indeed, I would like to say again to the Ambassador Rogelio that I just saw he came a little bit late, but the Chair was praising your job for the last five years you spent with us.  Thank you for your commitment, indeed, Ambassador.  Thanks a lot.  And now, beyond its very important trade provisions, this agreement is above all a renewal of our strategic partnership with Mexico, 25 years after the original Global Agreement entered into force. 

It substantially upgrades our political and cooperation framework, deepening dialogue on shared priorities including human rights, democracy, the rule of law and the fight against corruption.  It also strengthens the cooperation on human mobility challenges and the fight against transnational organized crime, areas where our two sides have a clear mutual interest in working more closely together.  Importantly, the agreement embeds solid, enforceable commitments on labor rights, environmental standards, a reflection of this house's long-standing insistence that our external partnership must reflect our values, not only our economic interests.  I look forward to the European Parliament's consent and the swift ratification by all 27 member states.  We need to match our geopolitical ambitions with facts and support what is not a simple technical arrangement, but rather a comprehensive political framework to shape our relations with one of the EU's strategic partners and Latin America's most influential economies. 

Thank you very much. 
07:29 - 07:53
Speaker 1
Thank you very much, and we can now start the vote, but before this we have to do a test vote.  So, I don't know, who is happy that it is a warm weather in Brussels today?  I open the vote.  Has everybody voted?  I close the vote. 

07:46 - 09:32

Iuliu Winkler

Yes, many of the colleagues are happy, a majority. So now, so now we can, we can proceed according to the voting list and we have amendment number one. Who is in favor? Who is against? I'm coached here that I forgot to mention something for the, for the minutes.

Yes.

So we are now voting on the draft consent recommendation, which proposes to give consent to the recommendation. Now I hope minutes are okay. Thank you. And once again please, once again please, amendment number one by show of hands, who is in favor? Who is against?

Who abstains? Thank you, it is rejected. And now we have a roll call vote on the draft recommendation as amended. And I open the vote. Has everybody voted?

I close the vote. So we have 67 votes in favor, the motion is adopted, 15 votes against and three abstentions. Thank you very much. And congratulations to the rapporteur. There is a request for the floor, please.

09:32 - 11:06

Lynn Boylan

Thank you, Chair, and I will be brief. Just that we would like to submit a minority report because the European Commission, who argues that this trade agreement will help Europe respond to geopolitical instability and economic uncertainty, but we believe the deal agreed will not deliver the benefits that it claims and it gives corporations the right to sue states before international tribunals and claim millions of euros when governments regulate in the public interest while granting no equivalent enforceable rights to workers, communities or the environment. And this exposes a glaring contradiction with Europe's exit from the Energy Charter Treaty to protect itself from such lawsuits and the ability to regulate. The agreement also appears to run counter to efforts to re-industrialize Europe. It facilitates the relocation of industries, particularly the automotive production, to Mexico and puts workers in Europe and Mexico into competition instead of supporting decent jobs, deepening a race to the bottom in labor conditions.

And it significantly restricts the government's policy space while promoting a harmful extractivist model, incentivizing agri-food exports instead of supporting agricultural sovereignty in both Mexico and Europe. And I think the Commission's own evaluation of the existing agreement with Mexico found that after nearly 20 years, its impact was marginal for both parties, even by the narrow measure of GDP, and therefore is little basis to expect that this revised deal will deliver the promised economic benefits. So we do support a stronger EU-Mexico relationship and closer cooperation, but on different terms.

11:06 - 22:29

Iuliu Winkler

Thank you very much, you will of course submit your position in a written statement. Thank you very much, it's noted and we can turn now to point 10 of our interim report in view of the consent procedure on the political, economic and cooperation strategic partnership agreement between the EU and Mexico. And we are starting now the second vote.

And we had a total of 317 amendments tabled to the draft interim report. Co-rapporteurs have been agreed on 21 compromise amendments with the shadow rapporteurs. Thank you for the work of all of them and let's start the vote. First compromise amendment number one. Who is in favor?

Who is against? Who abstains? Thank you, adopted. We go directly to compromise amendment number two. Who is in favor?

Who is against? Who abstains? Adopted. Compromise amendment number three. Who is in favor?

Who is against? Abstentions? Adopted. Compromise number four. Who is in favor?

Who is against? Abstention? Adopted. Compromise amendment number five. Who is in favor?

Who is against? Who abstains? Adopted. Compromise number six. Who is in favor?

Who is against? Abstentions? Adopted. Amendment number 214. No, sorry, sorry, excuse me, compromise amendment number seven.

Who is in favor? Who is against? Abstentions? Adopted. And now we arrive to compromise 214.

Who is in favor? Who is against? Who abstains? Rejected. Compromise amendment number eight.

Who is in favor? Who is against? Abstentions? Adopted. Now amendment 223.

Who is in favor? Who is against? Abstentions? Rejected. Rejected.

Amendment 225, 225. Who is in favor? Who is against? Abstentions? Rejected.

230. Who is in favor? Against? Abstentions? Rejected.

231. In favor? Against? Abstentions? Rejected.

Compromise amendment number nine. In favor? Against? Abstentions? Adopted.

Amendment 237. Who is in favor? Against? Abstentions? Rejected.

Compromise amendment number 10. In favor? Against? Abstentions? Adopted.

Compromise 11. In favor? Against? Abstentions? Adopted.

Compromise 12. In favor? Against? Abstentions? Adopted.

Compromise 13. In favor? Against? Abstentions? Adopted.

Now amendment 263. Who is in favor? Who is against? Abstentions? Rejected.

264. In favor? Against? Abstentions? I would like to check this please.

Amendment 264. Open the vote. I close the vote. And it is clearly rejected. Next compromise number 14.

In favor? Against? Abstentions? Adopted. Compromise 15.

In favor? Against? Abstentions? Adopted.

Next compromise number 14, in favor. Against. Abstentions adopted. Compromise 15, in favor. Against.

Abstentions adopted. Compromise 16, in favor. Against. Abstentions adopted. Amendment number 294, who is in favor.

Against. Abstentions rejected. 296, in favor. Against. Abstentions rejected.

298, in favor. Against. Abstentions rejected. 299, in favor. Against.

Abstentions rejected. 304, in favor. Against. Abstentions rejected. 305, in favor.

Against. Abstentions rejected. Compromise 17, in favor. Against. Abstentions adopted.

And amendment 310, in favor. Against. Abstentions rejected. 312, in favor. Against.

Abstentions rejected. We arrive to 313, in favor. Against. Abstentions rejected. 314, in favor.

Against. Abstentions rejected. 315, in favor. Against. Abstentions rejected.

316, in favor. Against. Abstentions rejected. 317, in favor. Against.

Abstentions rejected. Amendment number citation amendment 1 citation number 3, in favor. Against. Abstentions rejected. Amendment number 2, in favor.

Against. Abstentions rejected. Amendment number 3, in favor. Against. Abstentions rejected.

Amendment number 5, in favor. Against. Abstentions rejected. Number 6, in favor. Against.

Abstentions. I would like to check this please, amendment number 6. I open the vote. And I close the vote. And it is rejected.

Amendment number 7, who is in favor. Who is against. Who abstains. Rejected. Amendment number 8, in favor.

Against. Abstentions rejected. Amendment 10, in favor.

Against. Abstentions. Rejected. Amendment ten in favor. Against.

Abstentions. Rejected. Amendment eleven in favor. Against. Abstentions.

Rejected. Amendment twelve in favor. Against. Abstentions rejected. Now we arrive to compromise amendment eighteen.

Who is in favor? Who is against? Abstentions adopted. Amendment no compromise amendment number nineteen. Who is in favor?

Who is against? Abstentions adopted. Amendment number fifty-eight. Who is in favor? Who is against?

Abstentions adopted. Fifty-nine in favor. Rejected. I'm sorry. I'm sorry colleagues rejected.

Amendment fifty-nine. Who is in favor? Who is against? Who abstains? Rejected.

Amendment sixty. Six zero. Who is in favor? Who is against? Abstentions rejected.

Sixty-one in favor. Against. Abstentions rejected. We have amendment sixty-two which is withdrawn. So we go to amendment sixty-three.

Who is in favor? Who is against? Abstentions rejected. Sixty-four in favor. Against.

Abstentions rejected. Sixty-five in favor. Against. Abstentions rejected. Sixty-six in favor.

Against. Abstentions rejected. Sixty-seven in favor. Against. Abstentions rejected.

Compromise amendment twenty in favor. Against. Abstentions adopted. Amendment seventy-five. Seven five in favor.

Against. Abstentions rejected. Seventy-six in favor. Against. Abstentions rejected.

Compromise amendment twenty-one in favor. Against. Abstentions adopted. We arrive to the final vote which is a roll call vote on the draft report as amended. I open the vote.

And I close the vote. And the result is adopted fifty-seven votes in favor. Thank you very much to all the colleagues.

22:29 - 22:43

Hana Jalloul Muro

I would like to say one second chair. I would like to say thank you to Javi López and Borja for their excellent job both of you. Thank you very much. Sorry we didn't have the time to give you the floor. It was weird.

Thank you very much Javi and Borja.

22:43 - 35:19

Iuliu Winkler

Thank you very much colleague. And we arrive to the point six any other business which I see none. So this concludes our joint meeting INTA AFET. Thank you very much colleagues.

So, colleagues, if you agree, we can start again, this time our INTA session, and we start with a vote. We will have to vote on the INTA opinion to the ENVI committee on the CBAM extension, the proposal from the Commission for a regulation amending Regulation 2023/956 of 2023 as regards the extension of the scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures. INTA rapporteur is Lynn Boylan from the Left group. And as usual, before we start, we should have a test vote, so I open the vote. I don't have a question to you today, but I open the vote.

Do we want more air condition? Yes, that's the vote on behalf of the EPP group. I close the vote. So we are missing four votes. Was there anyone not voting but still here in the room?

So we close the vote. So, let us start the vote. And first we go to amendment 80. Who is in favor? Who is against?

Who abstains? Let us check, please. I open the check vote on amendment 80. I close the vote. I close the vote.

And it is adopted. Now compromise amendment number 4. Who is in favor? Who is against? Who abstains?

Adopted. This was a block vote with compromise amendment number 5, and it is adopted. Now I have a series of amendments withdrawn, and the next amendment is amendment 94. Who is in favor? Who is against?

Abstentions? Rejected. Amendment 95. Who is in favor? Who is against?

Abstentions? Rejected. Amendment 96. Who is in favor? Who is against?

Abstentions? I would like to check this, please. I open the check vote on amendment 96. And I close the vote.

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