The vice president of the European Commission (CE) For the clean, fair and competitive transition, Teresa Ribera, This Wednesday highlighted the “shared trajectory” of Mexico and the European Union in the “defense of Multilateralism “ and the energy transition in a “particularly sensitive moment” in the midst of global tensions.
“Mexico is a country that the EU feels very close, at a particularly sensitive moment, but with shared trajectories. It is a cozy land, defender of multilateralism. And this is a time when that is especially important. Of being consistent, and maintaining the commitment to multilateralism,” she said in a press conference in Mexico City, where she is an official visit.
Ribera remarked the “coincidences” between the government program of the Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum and that of the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyenby offering his vision of his priorities, among which he highlighted “economic modernization, CSocial ompromiso, and the green vector as a great engine of transformation of the productive fabric ”.
Therefore, the European vice president stressed that her visit seeks to “affirm what unites us”, since it is a time to “Build and affirm friends, instead of building enmity and destroying friendships.”
The agenda of Ribera in Mexicowhich closes on Thursday, includes conversations with the holders of Economy, Marcelo Ebrard, and Environment, Alicia Bárcena, And it is expected that this afternoon will meet with the Mexican Chancellor, Juan Ramón de la Fuente.
“Mexico and the EU are two great powers from the demographic point of view, consumption, production, enormously virtuous relationships. Mexico has been a key actor in biodiversity, climate, in transformation of the energy system,” Ribera added to journalists at the headquarters of the European delegation in the Mexican capital.
In this regard, he stressed that “in recent months” an agreement has been reached for Modernize the global pact between the EU and Mexicothat “in the last 25 years it has generated benefits for both societies, and a very relevant exchange, Not only of investments, but also of knowledge. ”
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European sources indicated that the vice president’s trip responds to a strategic agenda that seeks to strengthen the bilateral relationship and consolidate common efforts against global challenges such as the Climate, trade and energy security.
In contrast to the protectionist approach of other international partners, such as the United States, from the arrival of President Donald Trump to the White House, the EU sees in Mexico a strategic ally with which he shares values and objectives regarding sustainability and global integration.
“We trust that the United States does not abandon these postulates,” said Ribera, “what we know is that we are not going to abandon them because we play a lot.”
In her Thursday Tomorrow Agenda, the European Vice President, will close her trip to Mexico with a meeting with the UN Agency for Refugees (ACNUR), A visit to a migrants center and meetings with students from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
With EFE information.
