MEXICO AND CENTRAL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: BILATERAL AND MULTILATERAL COOPERATIVE RELATIONS

Resumo

This article analyzes the cooperative relations between Mexico and the Visegrad Group, also known as the V4. Mexico and the members of V4 (Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and the Slovak Republic) are geographically distant countries. However, both parties share similar aspects and problems. Although Mexico has become in the Americas, after the United States, the first trading partner of the V4 members, the cooperative relations between the two actors can be characterized as “tenuous”, despite the enormous potential that exists to expand such cooperation. This article has 4 objectives. The first is to analyze the cooperative relations that currently exist between Mexico and the V4. The second is to investigate the problems and challenges both parties share. The third is to analyze the relations between Mexico and the European Union (UE), particularly since the entry into force of the Global Agreement, as well as the negotiation and modernization of the agreement. The fourth and last objective, is to investigate the variables that hinder the increase of cooperative relations between Mexico and the V4.