Legal framework for cooperation

Mexico was the first Latin American country to sign an Economic Partnership, Political Coordination and Cooperation Agreement with the EU in 1997 (the “Global Agreement” entered into force in 2000). The Agreement covers political dialogue, trade relations and cooperation.

Moreover, since 2008 Mexico is one of the EU's strategic partners and, together with Brazil, the only two EU’s strategic partners in Latin America. In the framework of this partnership [43 KB] and its Joint Executive Plan , Mexico and the EU have expanded the scope of their dialogue and deepened their cooperation.

Priorities

The EU-Mexico relation has many facets:

• The Global Agreement has established a Free Trade Area between the EU and Mexico, which has considerably increased bilateral trade relations and European investments in Mexico.
• The two partners cooperate well on multilateral and global issues, such as climate change and global economic governance.
• Mexico and the EU engage in a series of fruitful sectoral dialogues and cooperation, on issues such as justice and security, Human Rights, environment, climate change, social cohesion, science and technology, education and culture.