The rotating presidency of the European Union that corresponds to Spain since Saturday is guaranteed in its continuity if there is a change of government after the elections on July 23. This was transmitted this Thursday by the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in Brussels, to the president of the Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, to the prime ministers of the European states in which the parties that are part of the PPE govern and to the European Parliament, during his visit to attend the EPP summit prior to the European Council meeting.
For this, Feijóo has had, for a few weeks, a team of experts, made up of four former ministers, a former commissioner, four former ambassadors, a professor of international law and the most prominent MEPs of the PP, who have “everything prepared to assume the presidency Europe” if the case arises and he governs from the end of August or September.
These are messages with which Feijóo has wanted to reassure Europe about the possibility of a change of government, and more, stressed the president of the PP, after having learned that the Government uses “institutional meetings to criticize the PP”, which the president of the PP seems reprehensible and that is why he wanted to send that message to the European authorities, to “give security to the European Union, that in the face of a possible change of government, the institution will not suffer, and that we distinguish the general elections from the presidency shift”.
According to Feijóo, the PP wants the European presidency to be “a matter of state” and for this reason he is once again asking the Government to create a “permanent working group” between the PP and the executive, so that his team is informed of the issues that Spain puts on the table” during the presidency, again “in the face of a possible change of government”.
“The PP has a firm commitment to the European presidency and that is how I have transferred it to the European authorities,” said Feijóo, who stressed that the PP “has the objective of making the presidency a success” because he is “a convinced Europeanist”. and for him, “Europe is a priority project”.
For this reason, Feijóo also regrets “the attitude of the Government” that he described as “unjustifiable”, because he has not had “not a single call or a single document from the Government about the presidency. “There have been no meetings or permanent contacts or with La Moncloa nor with Foreign Affairs”, to such an extent, he assured that “I have had more information about the presidency from the Swedish prime minister, who now holds the presidency, in the meeting I had with him in Stockholm”, than from the government of Spain, from which he has only received “a thunderous silence” and “a striking lack of transparency” when there is a possibility of a change of government.
During Feijóo’s speech before the plenary session of the leaders of the European People’s Party (EPP), in addition to launching that message of calm about the Spanish presidency of the EU, he made an analysis of the results of the municipal and regional elections on May 28 , and the pacts, with special emphasis on the PP’s decision to support the PSOE in Barcelona and Vitoria or the PNV in the Guipúzcoa Provincial Council, and ensures that none of the European leaders asked him about the pacts with Vox.
During the press conference held by Feijóo in Brussels, he was asked what he will do with the labor reform, of the Sánchez government, approved thanks to the wrong vote of a PP deputy. As he had previously said, the repeal of the labor reform is not among his plans if he reaches the Government.
And it is that even the employers had asked him to maintain the reform agreed between unions and employers. With this argument, Alberto Núñez Feijóo insisted this Thursday that he considers that there are some aspects that can be improved, and that is why he will call the social agents to see if they believe that those details to which he refers work, or if it is better change them, but he clarified that if the social agents say they do not want to change anything, nothing will change.
They are the same arguments used previously, the last time in the interview on Onda cero on June 6, when he pointed out that the current labor reform “is the reform of the Popular Party with a series of modifications”, although he will seek to change, in dialogue with the social agents, some aspects that, in his opinion, “go against the workers and the competitiveness of the companies”.
