Parliament adopted its interim report on the modernised EU-Mexico Global Agreement by 388 votes to 161 with 120 abstentions, backed by the EPP, S&D and Renew, while the PfE and The Left voted against and the Greens/EFA and ECR largely abstained. As a non-legislative own-initiative report, it carries no legal force, but it sets out Parliament's formal political position ahead of the ratification the agreement will require at both EU and Member State level. The central contest was over a series of amendments — tabled mainly from the ECR, ESN and PfE — that would have narrowed the report's endorsement of tariff removal and free trade with Mexico. These sought to warn that scrapping agri-food tariffs could favour large exporters over smaller EU and Mexican farmers, to demand systematic border controls and bans on imports produced with pesticides prohibited in the EU, and to recast the text's framing away from climate and multilateral cooperation toward migration and organised crime. Every one of these amendments was rejected, most by wide margins, as the EPP, S&D and Renew held together against them. On several agriculture-focused amendments the split was not purely left-right: the Greens/EFA and The Left joined the ECR, ESN and PfE in favouring stricter import-standard and pesticide language, while the EPP, S&D and Renew voted them down. The only amendment to pass was the deletion of a recital referencing the UN 2030 Agenda and climate action, carried 434 – 216 with the EPP, S&D, Renew and Greens/EFA in favour.
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