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Why EU-Mexico trade deal will face less resistance than Mercosur agreement

By Oscar Pandiello ( February 26, 2026, 15:24 GMT | Comment) -- In a turbulent period for global trade, the EU’s revamped agreement with Mexico — updating a pact from 2000 — is widely seen as unlikely to face the backlash that hit Mercosur. “There will be no problems,” center-right lawmaker Borja Giménez Larraz, who is steering the file through the European Parliament’s trade committee, told MLex in an exclusive interview. The Spanish member of the European People’s Party said cross-party scrutiny has produced a positive assessment of the deal.With global trade tensions rising and diversification climbing up the EU agenda, Brussels sees its revamped agreement with Mexico as both strategically urgent and politically safer than the explosive Mercosur deal....

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