During the first bilateral meeting held by the two leaders, they demonstrated their commitment to defending their financing systems and to “doing pedagogy” in the face of the “unfounded attacks” that these systems receive every time the financing of autonomy is debated.
The Lehendakari, Imanol Pradales, and the President of Navarra, María Chivite, agree that it is necessary to open the debate on regional financing, but have asked for “respect” for both the CAV Economic Agreement and the Navarre Convention.
In Chivite’s words, both are “instruments of solidarity with the rest of the country’s regions”, and he has assured that, in these times when the debate about the financing of the autonomous communities is resurfacing, “they will continue to do pedagogy and defend ‘their systems’”.
For his part, Pradales stressed the “unique character, solidarity and rigorous management” of both systems.
In the same way, he rejected the “demagogy and growing populism that we see in the state” and that represent “unfounded” attacks on the Agreement and the Concert. In this sense, he stressed that this is a question of financing “constitutionally protected, protected and valued by the European Union itself”.
Both leaders have also agreed on bets on the Cantabrian-Mediterranean high-speed corridor and have asked the Ministry of Transport for all existing technical information on the connection of the Navarrese section with the Basque Y.
The Navarrese president has also stressed that this connection “will only be meaningful if it also connects us to Zaragoza”, and therefore she has trusted that “as soon as possible” they will have all the necessary technical information on the table. The Lehendakari has insisted that, given the “relevance” of the infrastructure, “we must participate and decide” between the three governments involved.
Source: EITB
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