Mexico City. The embassies in Mexico of the member countries of the European Union and companies from the old continent that operate in the country, have expressed their uncertainty about the energy reform proposed by the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. This was commented by the co-president of the Mexico-European Union Parliamentary Commission, Massimiliano Smeriglio during a press conference last Friday in Mexico City.
A group of five MEPs visited Mexico City last week to explore the current situation in various areas that are assimilated in the new Global Agreement between the European Union and Mexico, and for this they met with officials from the Ministry of Energy and Foreign Relations, with the President of the Senate, with Non-Governmental Organizations that work on human rights issues, with deputies and with ambassadors of the European Union, among others.
Smeriglio MEP, a member of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, commented: “For us, the issue of energy reform is a sensitive issue to which we obviously pay a lot of attention. We respect the sovereignty of the Mexican Republic, however, our job is to strengthen the exchange of our parliamentary diplomacies, and what matters most to us is that whatever the Mexican Government chooses to do, and in this we have no doubt, is within of the rule of law and therefore of respect for those who have invested in this country in these years ”, indicated Smeriglio.
He said optimistic after holding a meeting with Mexican congressmen.
Signature conditioner?
When asked if an eventual approval of the energy reform would derail the ratification of the Global Agreement, the MEP replied: “Absolutely not (…) on our part there will never be interference in the Senate and in Parliament. There is a different issue that concerns the reciprocal credibility and reliability of the subjects that are made of that (Global) Agreement independently of the energy reform: we talk about the indicators and parameters for clean energy, the Paris Agreements, respect of human rights and the security of the rule of law, this has nothing to do with the (energy) reform.
The Mexican government has all the legitimacy to change the rules, the issue that is complicated is to imagine retroactivity because the rule of law does not work like that ”.
On human rights and migratory flows “we had a very tough encounter with NGOs. There is a worrying situation in matters of organized crime, the presence of very broad corruption systems ”, he indicated.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx