Madrid (EFE).- In a new touch against the Junta de Andalucía, the vice president and minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, has urged the president, Juanma Moreno, not to “fool around” with the reorganization of irrigation in Doñana because the The warning from Europe is “very serious” and “it could cost us Spaniards a lot of money.”
In the press conference after the Council of Ministers, Minister Ribera warned today that if Europe condemns Spain “with coercive fines, these will continue until the law is no longer applied.”
“What is this provocation about?” The minister asked with concern, for whom it is much “more honest” to find the best answers and not get carried away by “deniers or populists with a high dose of demagogy and always coinciding with quotes electoral”.
The Board warns that “neither can nor want” to give up solving the problem of irrigation
The Andalusian Government has warned that it “neither wants nor can give up” solving the problem of regulating irrigation in the North Crown of Doñana, and has indicated that now is the time to find out “what alternatives have” those who “have insulted” the Board last week, alluding to the central government.
In the press conference after the meeting of the Governing Council, the spokesman for the Executive and Minister for Sustainability, the Environment, and the Blue Economy, Ramón Fernández Pacheco, reiterated that the Andalusian Government “has always been clear” that the problem of the northern crown of Doñana requires solutions and “not looking the other way” because the families of Huelva “deserve it”.
He has pointed out that these families have been waiting “for a long time” for these solutions and the Andalusian Government “takes a step forward” and offers “alternative” solutions to those that other governments have proposed in recent times, something that, according to what he has said, transferred yesterday to the European Commissioner for the Environment, Virginijus Sinkevicius, at the meeting in Brussels.
After that meeting, the European Commission charged against the proposed law to regularize irrigation in the area of Doñana, considering that it goes “in the opposite direction” to the obligation to protect the Natural Park and “could degrade the wetland.”
After noting that the commissioner granted the Board a meeting five days after requesting it, a “difference” with what happens with the Government of Spain, Fernández-Pacheco has stressed that the meeting served to have the opportunity to explain “without intermediaries” the bill that is being debated in Parliament.