2023-07-03 16:56:30
The start of the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union that Spain assumes this semester coincides with the start of the electoral campaign. An eventuality that the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, trusts will not be an obstacle for it to develop “effectively” without the next elections on July 23 altering its operation. This, despite the fact that the main opposition party denounces that the Executive of Pedro Sánchez has left them out of the main decisions and the operation of the summit.
“Regardless of the outcome of the elections, I am confident that the Spanish government and the institutions are capable of carrying out an effective presidency,” he said at a press conference with the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, after the meeting. between the Spanish Executive and the College of Commissioners to mark the start of the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU that Spain assumes until December. “I have full confidence in the deep European spirit of Spain,” stressed the head of the Community Executive, at the end of a four-hour meeting between the group of ministers that make up the Government and the majority of commissioners of the Von der Leyen Executive.
For his part, the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has guaranteed that “he will fulfill his duty” during the six-month presidency of the Council of the EU and will facilitate agreements on pending issues, as well as ensuring that the presidency will be carried out with ” absolute normalcy.” The head of the Spanish Executive has established four key points on which the axes of action of the presidency will pivot: the present and future of Ukraine; reduce external vulnerabilities and increase strategic autonomy; advance in a competitive economy that is fair and complete the Migration and Asylum Pact, which they receive very advanced from the Swedish presidency and which they aspire to culminate during this semester.
Sánchez has assured that achieving this aspiration would be “important and symbolic for Spain”, since for a “country of first entry” to achieve this pact would be a sign of “responsibility”. For his part, Von der Leyen recalled that “we are at a crucial point, we have to advance in different initiatives to bring them to the final goal, but two thirds of the proposals that the Commission has made during its mandate have already been concluded “, he explained to influence the volume of work that remains, some 250 proposals, although obviously not everything can be concluded, he said.
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