The chief of the European ‘populares’ has been “very stunned” by the “fairly political” habits of the Commission within the Doñana case. He has affirmed that the commissioner has acknowledged that it’s “apparent” that the Government of Spain should “sit down to talk with the Junta de Andalucía” and that it’s as much as the nationwide authorities to adjust to the sentence”I’ve to be very clear: I see the commissioner now increasingly as a ‘purple shirt’ campaigning for Sánchez and never a lot as a real creator of options at this stage”, added the German MEP
The president of the European People’s Party (EPP), Manfred Weber, has accused this Wednesday the European Commission and, specifically, the Commissioner for the Environment, Virginijus Sinkevicius, of “partisan” habits and of getting “placed on the purple shirt to do marketing campaign” by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, on the controversy that has generated the invoice to control irrigation in Doñana.
This was said in statements to the media after assembly with the Spanish MEPs Dolors Montserrat and Juan Ignacio Zoido with the commissioner, a member of the Union of Lithuanian Peasants and Greens, in what’s already his fourth assembly with Spanish authorities in relation to to the wetland and the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (EU), which requires its safety.
The chief of the European ‘populares’ has been “very stunned” by the “fairly political” habits of the Commission within the Doñana case and has branded it as “unacceptable”. “The most vital factor is that everybody needs to search out options”, he has pressured, whereas calling for “a Commission that tries to contribute to the seek for options by uniting folks and never separating them for partisan political causes”.
“I’ve to be very clear: I see the commissioner now increasingly as a ‘purple shirt’ campaigning for Sánchez and never a lot as a real creator of options at this stage,” the German MEP added about Sinkevicius.
“We have requested that the Commission not be utilized by any get together, on this case the PSOE, throughout an electoral marketing campaign,” stated Dolors Montserrat, who has requested Brussels to “chorus from partisan communications ” whereas demanding that Minister Teresa Ribera “stop her conceitedness and assaults on the Junta de Andalucía and sit down with them to work and dialogue for the nice of all.”
In this sense, he has affirmed that the commissioner has acknowledged that it’s “apparent” that the Government of Spain should “sit down to speak with the Junta de Andalucía” and that it’s as much as the nationwide authorities to adjust to the sentence.
However, when requested if the commissioner has informed them that the Andalusian Parliament’s invoice “is opposite” to this sentence, as Brussels has already reiterated in a number of communications, she has assured that this concern has not been addressed.
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