The Budget Control Committee of the European Parliament requests a meeting of four members of the Government, including the First Vice President,
Nadia Calviño
, and the Minister of Finance,
María Jesús Montero
, so that they explain the destination of at least the European funds transferred in 2021 This parliamentary body must make a report and it will place the Government in an uncomfortable situation, which is not providing data on effective execution, but on transfers between administrations or committed payments.
Sources from the parliamentary commission assure this newspaper that the secretariat is already in the process of making appointments with members of the Government, regional leaders and various associations within the parliamentary mission that will take place next month.
The commission must prepare a report on the use of funds in the first year, 2021, and it focuses on Spain, because it was the first to request and collect the first payments.
It obtained, not only an advance (9,039 million) like the rest of the member states, but a first payment of 10,000 million.
The president of this important commission of the European Parliament, the German conservative Monika Hohlmeier
, is organizing the trip .
This MEP, a member of the European People's Party
,
already starred in a tough session with European commissioners last October due to the opacity that she detects in Spain with the funds.
«Here we have a responsibility and I cannot tell anyone what the money is being spent on in Spain.
I can't explain it to anyone (...) I have no idea how he spends it.
This is not presentable.
This is not acceptable », she protested at times angrily and at others sarcastically.
"When are they going to bring us a list of how the money is being spent?" she repeatedly asked the directors-general of the European Commission,
Maarten Verwey
and
Céline Gauer
and scolded the curators,
Valdis Dombrovskis
and
Paolo Gentiloni
.
The coordinators of the control commission of the European Parliament who have agreed on the list not only want to see the ministers with the greatest responsibility in the funds, for which they also request to see the head of Industry,
Reyes Maroto,
and that of Inclusion,
José Luis Escrivá
, but also to regional leaders.
On the list, to which EL MUNDO has had access, are the Treasury councilors from Madrid,
Javier Fernández-Lasquetty
, from Andalucía,
Carolina España
, from Castilla-La Mancha,
Patricia Franco
, and from Aragón,
Marta Gastón,
among others .
, to cover communities governed by PP and PSOE.
They also want to meet with the resigned general director for the Recovery Plan,
Rocío Frutos
, due to her strange resignation from the post, and her replacement,
Jorge Fabra
.
The general secretary of European funds and main interlocutor in the Ministry of Finance,
Mercedes Caballero
, also appears in the list of people who want to see the MEPs.
The German and her delegation do not want to be left alone with versions of official authorities.
They also request meetings with CEOE and the automotive business associations, Anfac, the digital industry Ametic, and Banking, AEB.
The UGT union, the ATA self-employed association, the Chamber of Spain and the consulting firms EY and PwC are also included in the list of institutions to be visited by parliamentarians.
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