The Basque government has made six commitments in the second management phase of the Generation Nex European Funds; Among them, Minister Calviño has shown her commitment to the potential of the Basque Country in the field of green hydrogen.
Euskaraz irakurri: Lehendakariak et Calviñok adostu dute Europako funtsekin finantzatu beharreko proiektuak Euskadin erabakitzea
The Lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, has announced that the Basque government has reached an agreement with the Spanish government to decide in the Basque Country which projects will be financed under the Next Generation EU funds.
Urkullu and the Minister of Economy and Digital Transformation, Nadia Calviño, appeared together at the Lehendakaritza, after the meeting to discuss the second phase of the management plan for the Generation Next European Funds.
In his speech, the Lehendakari explained the six sections with the commitments agreed upon at the meeting. He referred primarily to the Sustainability Fund of the Autonomous Communities, with a budget of 20,000 million euros.
In this sense, the agreement stipulates that “the decision on the projects to be financed logically corresponds to the Basque Government, within the framework of the areas marked by Europe”. “So we have received an answer to the question of participation in the regional PERTE,” he added.
Earlier, in an interview for the program “Boulevard” on Radio Euskadi, the minister assured that the Basque government “already direct management” of the firsts €850 million of the European NEXT recovery funds and added that it manages them “completely normal”. Precisely, during the last appearance (October 2022) before the Basque Parliament of the Minister of Economy and Finance, Pedro Azpiazu, he estimated the funds received at 785 million.
Of the agreements, the Lehendakari also emphasized that the President of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, has made a written commitment to the Basque projects for cross-border interconnections in transport and energy, and his “commitment to the potential of the Basque Country in terms of hydrogen green” .
“Basque Country is one of the regions where one of the innovative projects will be located, as well as one of the first axes of the main green hydrogen network. Likewise, a proposal for underground hydrogen storage in the Basque Country will be analyzed,” emphasized Iñigo Urkullu.
With regard to the institutional visits to the Basque Country by the commissioners of the PERTE for electric and connected vehicles, industrial decarbonisation, agri-food and microelectronics and semiconductors, the regional executive will organize information sessions in which the relevant sectors in each area will participate.
Similarly, Urkullu explained that it has been agreed that the loans received from the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism will not count towards the autonomous communities’ deficit, “as long as they are mobilized through financial operations, but they will count towards the debt” , for that each Community will determine the ease of its use”.
As mentioned, this is the agreed path to channeling the response to the amount demanded by the Basque government for the MRR bond.
With regard to the Corporate Tax Rebate Fund (R&D) and the Social Inclusion Reform Fund (IMV), it has been agreed that these figures will be analyzed between the technical teams of both governments, so that “compliance with the agreement is economically guaranteed”. Basque.
For this, as Urkullu has explained, they will create a specific technical working group and, with regard to the identified dysfunctions in the amounts transferred to the Basque Country, have specified that the broadband program in industrial areas has been reprogrammed, while the rest of Disfunctions will be reprogrammed . channeled through bilateral relations.
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Source: EITB
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