Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-000631/2025
to the Council
Rule 144
Jorge Martín Frías (PfE)
One of the first measures taken by the incoming President of the United States, Donald Trump, was to designate Mexican drug cartels as ‘foreign terrorist organisations’[1] in order to be able to allocate the necessary resources to the war on drugs.
However, at the end of January, the Council renewed the EU list of terrorist persons, groups and entities[2] without including the Mexican drug cartels as the Trump administration had done.
As this Member has warned in previous questions (E-001790/2024[3], E-002382/2024[4] and E-002686/2024/rev.1[5]), the complicity of Claudia Sheinbaum’s government with drug trafficking organisations – with the approval of the botched judicial reform or with an unambitious ‘zero impunity’ security strategy, for instance – is making life easy for these organisations and ensuring their impunity in Mexico.
In light of the above:
- 1.Will the Council include Mexican cartels on the list as part of the forthcoming review of Common Position 2001/931/CFSP of 27 December 2001 on the application of specific measures to combat terrorism?
- 2.Will the Council attempt to coordinate a security strategy with the United States so as to jointly combat drug trafficking?
Submitted: 11.2.2025
- [1] THE WHITE HOUSE – Designating Cartels And Other Organizations As Foreign Terrorist Organizations And Specially Designated Global Terrorists – EXECUTIVE ORDER – 20 January 2025.
- [2] Council Decision (CFSP) 2025/207 of 30 January 2025 updating the list of persons, groups and entities covered by Common Position 2001/931/CFSP on the application of specific measures to combat terrorism, and repealing Decision (CFSP) 2024/2056.
- [3] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-10-2024-001790_ES.html.
- [4] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-10-2024-002382_ES.html.
- [5] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-10-2024-002686_ES.html.