Virginius SynkeviciusEuropean Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries who held the meeting with Junta de Andalucía in Brussels, appointed by the President of the European People’s Party (EPP), Manfred WeberIt accused him of “campaigning for Sánchez” because of the situation in Doñana National Park, and also accused him of not looking for solutions and called his behavior unacceptable.
But the fact is that the Lithuanian commissioner and politician belongs to the commission presidency team, Ursula von der Leyen. In the same way, his political party is Union of Lithuanian Peasants and Greenscenter-right ideology. However, at the European level, it is affiliated with Greens Group / Free European AllianceIt is a coalition of the European Green Party (EGP) and the European Free Alliance (EFA).
His responsibilities as Commissioner include ensuring that the environment, oceans and fisheries remain at the heart of the European Green Deal, delivering a new Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, meeting the Commission’s zero pollution ambition, and spearheading action for a circular economy or promotion of plastic-free oceans. and apply legislation to plastics appropriately, among other things.
In 2009 he graduated from Salomėja Nėris Gymnasium in Vilnius, at Lithuaniaand later completed his undergraduate studies at Aberystwyth University, in United kingdomWhere he graduated in economic and social studies. In terms of his political career, 2016 stands out, when he was elected as a member of the Sejm of the Republic of Lithuania for Šeškinė constituency in Vilnius, as an independent candidate.
Later it was named Chairman of the Economic Committeeuntil he became Minister of Economy in the Lithuanian government in 2017. In 2019, the Lithuanian parliament approved his candidacy for the post of European Commissioner, a position he held from that year until 2024.
Criticisms of the European PP
“We see the commissioner red-shirt campaigning for Sanchez and not presenting himself as someone looking for solutions at this level,” Weber argued in remarks to the press after Wednesday’s meeting with the Eurochamber’s Spanish people’s delegation. led Dolor Montserrat– and the deputy Juan Ignacio Zoido. In addition, he called the Commissioner’s behavior “unacceptable”.
Moments after learning of this situation, Sinkevicius took to social media to insist that the European Commission “acts as guardian of European treaties” and, in Doñana’s case, defended it. It is “important for Spain and the European Union”.
He stressed that “my message is the same: the Commission acts as a neutral trustee of the treaties and the implementation of the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union is a priority.”
The pulse between Moreno Bonilla and Sanchez moves to Europe
In his meeting with the Andalusian Minister of Sustainability, Environment and Economy, Ramon Fernandez PachecoSinkevicius warned that the irrigation bill promoted by the government of Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla could “deteriorate” and cause “catastrophic effects” in Doñana, in addition to the fact that it is intended to “seem to go in the opposite direction” to the ruling of the European Supreme Court of Justice (CJEU). ) for the year 2021.
The Commissioner conveyed at the meeting that the Commission was “extremely concerned that the proposed Andalusian legislation, if approved as proposed, It could lead to the degradation of Doñana protected wetlands“, because it is one of the main lungs on the continent, and especially the largest in the entire Iberian Peninsula. However, he showed his commitment to “evaluating all the arguments” put forward by the government of the Andalusian People’s Party.
Faced with these accusations within the Commission, which the PP made for the first time towards the coalition government, the PSP, for its part, denounced that the formation of Alberto Núñez Viejo focused on “leaving the image of Spain to the soil in the rest of the world”: “They attack science, common sense, the government of Spain and now the European Union. All in order not to acknowledge the environmental atrocities they want to commit in Donana, socialist sources confirm.
It did not take long for the parliamentary treatment of irrigation proposed by PP and Vox in Andalusia to arouse the central government’s disapproval, but not only did criticism flow from Moncloa, but these intentions reached the European Commission, which again warned the junta of Moreno Bonilla of the dangers that its situation would entail. under excution.
This is the position that, in addition to what was conveyed by the Lithuanian Environment Commissioner on Monday, the European Commission also warned the Executive Director of Pedro Sanchez that the measures that have been put in place so far to preserve the wetlands and the entire environment of the Doñana are all “That’s not enough”Therefore, it is necessary that the measures be more extreme when the effects of dehydration have already become more than evident.
In this regard, Brussels reminded the Andalusian Council that EU legislation requires sustainable use of water, as well as the preservation and maintenance of protected areas. In this regard, it has been pointed out that if the deterioration of the state of the water bodies continues to increase, the effects could be disastrous for the preservation of the ecosystems of the park.
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