Euskadi can contribute “industrial and technological capacity” to the plan to accommodate Europe

The Minister of Industry, Energy Transition and Sustainability of the Basque Government, Mikel Jaureegi, said that Euskadi can contribute its “industrial and technological capacity” to the plan to Hermansen, and especially companies in the cyber security sector.

In an interview granted to Euskadi Irratia, he has urged that the contribution that Euskadi can make to the new security plan of the European Union is the “industrial and technological capacity”, although he has regretted it, “when you have things about the defense industry here.”

The Minister of Industry, Energy Transition and Sustainability has therefore considered that “wars are increasingly digital and in this sense have good companies that are doing very well, creating good jobs, so why don’t we continue our growth there?”

He also indicated that 95 % of defense technology has “double use”. “Our companies have been in that double use for decades,” he added, “and will continue to do so, and we must offer our industrial and technological capacity to that European project.”

He considered that in a different order of things 25 % rates on steel and aluminum of the European Union that will apply the Trump government from tomorrow on Wednesday on “have its impact”, and that, although only 1.47 % of Basque exports to the US. “

Finally, the counselor Jaureegi confirmed that it is “very good” that the European Commission has more flexible to industry of the industry of the Automotive Keep competitive while you continue his transformation to the electric vehicle, “especially because you have to listen to people.”