The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, and the president of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, Renaud Muselier, announced yesterday that they will sign a commitment to the Mediterranean macro-region in the coming weeks that should include cooperation between ports. Thus, a great alliance of Mediterranean ports will be created, among which will be for the moment Barcelona, ​​Tarragona, Marseille, Toulon and Nice.
The intention is to set criteria in relation to the contamination of the merchant marine and cruise ships. “To face up to pollution and avoid competition to the bottom,” Aragonès stressed yesterday from Marseille before assuring that a path of “friendship” between the two territories thus begins. Aragonès and Muselier have proposed to extend this alliance to ports such as Algeciras or Valencia, as well as Italian ports.
The President of the Generalitat visited the region of French Provence and the French Mediterranean Alps. He participated in a conference on drought in which different regional leaders shared strategies in the face of climate change that is especially affecting the Mediterranean shores.
Yesterday he also visited a pilot plant for the production of green hydrogen in Fos-sur-Mer, near Marseille, of the GRT gaz company. In fact, this is where the submarine pipeline between Barcelona and Marseille, known as BarMar or H2Med, must arrive to supply France with this source of energy. Germany will also benefit.
In the field of domestic politics, from France Aragonès drew as the beginning of a new understanding with Junts the replacement of Laura Borrà s by Anna Erra as president of Parliament. Erra will be appointed tomorrow with the support of ERC and Junts, and the abstention of the CUP, and the president applauded that “the interim term is put to an end.” He also verified that with the new president there is a good opportunity to “rebuild trust and shared decisions among the pro-independence deputies.”
“We must leave behind the interim in the Parliament,” Aragonès wanted to remark when asked if he was in favor of suppressing article 25.4 of the Catalan Chamber’s regulations, which allowed the temporary disqualification of Laura Borrà s for the accusation of prevarication and documentary falsehood. “Other discussions will be taken up in due course,” he said.
However, he did not clarify whether the possible support that the leader of Esquerra in Barcelona, ​​Ernest Maragall, can give to Xavier Trias, from Junts, so that he takes over the Barcelona government, will have a counterpart, which could well be stability. that Aragonès claims for his own Cabinet in the remainder of the legislature. The president limited himself to indicating that it is Maragall who has the freedom to negotiate for the Barcelona City Council. “We need the independence movement to be strong at the municipal level and promote the maximum agreement, and that the Government of Catalonia can have parliamentary stability,” he stressed.
