“Understand that Euskadi can play a relevant role in everything that influences the policy of competitiveness, re -industrialization in Europe,” said Lehendakari after a meeting with the President of the European Union Council, Antonio Costa.
“I want to emphasize the sensitivity shown by the president Antonio Costa And the knowledge of its Basque reality and its value, because it understands that Euskadi can play a relevant role in everything that influences the competitiveness policy, re -industrialization in Europe, and that does not require the treatment of singularities in Europe by homologating to All nations without state and all regions. “This is how the Lehendakari is expressed Pradales ImanolIn the short statements he made for the journalists, at the end of the meeting he held with the President of the European Union Council, Antonio Costa.
Within his second Official journey Unpleasant BrusselsThe Lehendakari collected with Costa this Wednesday to tackle problems with regard to Atlantic Macro region, including the official of the Basque and Cohesief Funds. He will continue his contacts at 2:00 PM, when he will meet the European Commissioner for sustainable transport and tourism, Apostols Tzitzikostas, and at 4.10 pm he has an agreement with the Executive Vice President of the European Commission for a clean, honest and fair and Competitive transition, Teresa Ribera.
For Pradales, “It is a very relevant problem from the political position” to maintain a meeting “of the highest political level of a bilateral nature” with the President of the EU Council and to be able to speak for an hour about issues the Basque agenda in Brussels. “It is necessary to know the orientation of the policy that the EU will implement, because Antonio Costa is ultimately the president of an EU council in which the 27 heads of state of the state feel,” he said.
Moreover, he remembered that Europe is being confronted with ‘a historical moment when the world order is being recaptured, wherever that game should play, where the blocks, China and the US demand a strong, united Europe, that are bleaching their safety in the broad sense , technological, food, energy and defense security.
As for the Euskera -OfficialThe best leader of the Basque government has indicated that this issue is on the EU council agenda because “it is being promoted by the Spanish government, in collaboration with those who, such as Euskadi, Catalonia and Galicia, have a linguistic reality.”
“It is positive that it is on the agenda of the EU Council. Problems are analyzed that influence the management of this issue in the light of an opportunity that can be approved in the future. It is a delicate problem because There are 27 states that have an opinion, you have to reach unanimity, and that is why you have to do things little by little and be wise in diplomatic efforts to the highest level that are being performed, “he said.
Source: EITB
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