2024-02-01 09:57:05
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Minister Ribera, for Felipe González’s attacks on renewables: “Out of respect, I prefer not to answer”
The third vice president and minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, responded this Thursday to the statements made last Tuesday by the former socialist president of the Government, Felipe González, defending nuclear energy as clean, despite the dangerous waste it generates, and attacking to renewables.
“Out of respect for what Felipe González has been and what he represents for everyone, I am not going to respond to his statements that have been profusely contested due to the many errors they had,” said Ribera, and added: “I respect that he is “In favor of maintaining nuclear power plants, I understand that some think that they have more weight here or there in the electricity mix.”
In his speech on Tuesday, González – who for five years was a director of the energy company Naturgy – admitted the problem of managing nuclear waste, which he equated with that generated by wind turbines or photovoltaic plants. “There is no completely clean energy” because it is not planned “what we are going to do with the waste from the photovoltaic plants when their useful life or from the wind turbines ends,” González said.
By Toño Fraguas
12:11 h
More Madrid blames Ayuso for praising the “risk” of young people’s lives while health vocational training students are left without internships
The spokesperson for Más Madrid in the regional assembly, Manuel Bergerot, has disfigured the president of the community, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, in the first plenary session of the year, for referring in a previous speech to the fact that young people must face life as an “adventure.” , risk and chance.”
“When you talk about risk, do you mean not graduating from a health vocational training program because you cannot do the internship? That is the situation of thousands of students in public schools because private schools take away their places. “They are on strike because their government allows it,” criticized Bergerot, who also wondered if by “adventure” Ayuso alludes to the fact that renting an apartment costs more than a young woman’s salary, and if it is the product of “chance” that the The president’s brother invoiced a commission of hundreds of thousands of euros for the purchase of masks by the regional government during COVID.
Ayuso has not responded directly, but has called Más Madrid’s speech “apocalyptic and depressive.” He has said that young people “have to go out and fight” and has ended up accusing the opposition of wanting to emulate Venezuela.
Informa Victor Honorato
11:38 h
Borrell: “If you cut funding to UNRWA, you are punishing the entire Palestinian people”
The high representative, Josep Borrell, has distanced himself from all the countries that are withdrawing their aid to UNRWA as a result of the handful of workers accused of collaborating with Hamas. “If you cut off funding to UNRWA, you are punishing the entire Palestinian people,” said Borrell, who insisted that “collective punishment” cannot be carried out.
Borrell has defended carrying out an investigation, which is what the UN has launched and on which the EU’s actions will depend, but he has opted to preserve the aid that keeps hundreds of thousands of people in Loop. “There is no alternative to UNRWA if you want to keep those people alive,” Borrell said.
Informa Irene Castro
11:23 h
Ayuso, to Monasterio: “In terms of immigration, I am not going anywhere with you”
The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has distanced herself – at least verbally – from Vox’s proposals and criticisms on immigration and has told the spokesperson of this formation in the Assembly, Rocío Monasterio, that in This issue is not going “anywhere” with her.
In the first question from the Vox spokesperson in the Government Control session this Thursday, Monasterio asked the Madrid president to go “together to close repatriation agreements, to close the menas centers, and to take the migrants from Alcalá to the door of La Moncloa.”
“Everything he says about immigration always comes with stigma, but crime does not come with race, nor with the country, nor with its culture, it comes with unexpected situations and illegality,” Ayuso responded. The president has assured that her job as president is to “integrate and provide shelter” to migrants, “not only for humanity, but to comply with the law.”
This speech by Ayuso clashes with her own newspaper archive: just a few days ago, the Madrid president linked immigration with sexual assaults and an outbreak of scabies in Alcalá de Henares without evidence.
With information from EFE
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