Madrid (EFE).- The German parliamentarians who had planned to visit Doñana in the next few hours to learn about the situation of irrigation in the national park on account of the cultivation of strawberries “resigned for the moment to make their long-planned trip to Andalusia.”
“The Commission for the Environment, Nature Protection, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection of the German Bundestag has decided to for the moment give up its long-planned trip to Andalusia,” according to a statement from this body.
“The objective of the trip was to exchange experiences and gather information on a topic that interests our two countries: climate change and its consequences,” according to the same sources.
Although the trip to Doñana is suspended, the Spanish Secretary of State for the Environment, Hugo Morán, is meeting this afternoon with the German parliamentarians at the headquarters of the Ministry for Ecological Transition, in Madrid.
Ribera disassociates himself from the visit of the German parliamentarians to Doñana
The Minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, said this Monday that the visit of German parliamentarians to Doñana “comes directly” from the Bundestag, a “usual custom” and “transparent” to gather information, after Asaja has requested his resignation for relating her to that trip.
Last Friday, the Board of Directors of the agricultural organization Asaja requested the resignation of Ribera “for his messages encouraging the boycott of strawberries from Huelva” in Germany.
Today, upon her arrival at the “European Funds Day III: Spain for global leadership in the green and digital economy”, the third vice-president also stressed that the visit of the German parliamentarians comes directly from the German Parliament in order to find out about the drought and how it affects the national park and the cultivation of strawberries.
And it is that, as he stressed, the issue of Doñana is “an enormously important issue for the Spanish, for the Europeans and for all the defenders of the environment.”
The Board accuses the Government of “treason” for encouraging the “hoax campaign” against strawberries
The Junta de Andalucía has accused this Monday the Government of the nation of committing a “great treason” and “great irresponsibility”, considering that it has encouraged the “hoax campaign” against Huelva agriculture turning the “Andalusian countryside into a permanent electoral battlefield”.
This was confirmed in statements to journalists by the Minister of Sustainability and spokesman for the Andalusian Government, Ramón Fernández-Pacheco, when questioned about the manifestations of the vice president of the central Executive, Nadia Calviño, who criticized this Monday that “irresponsibility” of the PP with Doñana has affected strawberry farmers.
For his part, the Andalusian Minister of the Presidency, Antonio Sanz, described Monday as “unusual”, “regrettable” and “shameful” that the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, “sides with the boycott of products Spaniards”, for the case of the Huelva strawberry.
“There are 160,000 jobs that Sánchez endangers by siding with an insidious, demagogic and false campaign; but he already knows, with Sánchez everything is possible ”, Sanz told journalists before inaugurating an exhibition on press covers and terrorism organized by the Vocento group at the Seville City Hall.
This campaign against the Andalusian countryside, according to Sanz, has been “encouraged by the President of the Government”, a fact that he has insisted on describing as unusual and unthinkable “in any other country in the EU, or in the world”.
Garamendi (CEOE) rejects the “smear campaign” against the Huelva strawberry
The president of CEOE, Antonio Garamendi, has rejected this Monday the “smear campaign” against the strawberry from Huelva and has been opposed to any type of boycott.
“We cannot share the campaign to discredit agriculture and a very important product for the Huelva countryside”, he pointed out during his speech at the closing of the ATA assembly.
“We are against boycotts (…) the countryside is compatible with the environment,” added Garamendi, who asked not to use the “sustenance of many families.”