Laya says that the image of Spain after Covid-19 "remains stable" and announces the opening of "safe corridors" with Europe

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The Minister of

has defended today in the Plenary of Congress that the

"remains stable" after the management of the first wave of Covid-19 and that it has not worsened, contrary to what the opposition and some defend analysts.

Arancha González Laya has even announced the opening of "safe corridors" with

, without specifying anything else and when the summer tourist season has already ended.

The head of Spanish diplomacy has blamed the PP for the idea that "the image of Spain is bad and is getting worse."

González Laya has advanced the results of the study by

which is presented on Thursday and which says that the image of Spain "remains stable, despite the fact that it plummeted in 2011 and 2013."

Laya has also cited the

in which our country remains one of the 20 most influential states in the world, with a stable image.

Laya has assured during the control session of Congress that the work of the

in the European Union is bearing fruit and that Brussels is going to approve a series of recommendations that "go in the direction of what Spain demands", because it "territorializes" travel restrictions and "open safe corridors."

Since the summer, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has tried unsuccessfully to have the

restrictions

lifted in the

and

.

Other countries in Europe have made travel recommendations to Spain by territory, taking into account the situation of each autonomous community.

Now, when the summer tourist season has ended, Laya has announced that the United Kingdom is also about to bear fruit for the benefit of the safest regions of Spain and that "most need tourism", also referring to the two archipelagos .

In his response, González Laya has demanded that the PP "pitch in" for the benefit of Spain's image instead of proclaiming the opposite "in Congress, in the Senate, in Madrid and in Brussels."

And he has insisted that, despite the terrible data left by the passage of the coronavirus through Spain between March and May, the image of Spain has not suffered.

The PP Foreign spokeswoman,

, has denounced, for her part, that Spain is ending "the worst tourist season in history", with 165 countries imposing restrictions and with more than 100,000 million euros in losses.

Thus, he has told González Laya that, instead of traveling this summer to

,

or

, he should have gone to

,

,

or

"to convince" the main emitters of tourists that "this is a country safe".

The problem, he continued, is that for that he had to have "gone with the truth of the data and not with the lie of the propaganda."

Martínez has denounced that Spain "did not take measures in time" and that the Government "has not learned any lessons."

"Spain counts less than ever in the world," he denounced, "because it counts the victims, and they count them badly."

For this reason, "no country in the world has lifted the restrictions, but they have tightened them."

The

deputy

has denounced that "the political inaction" of Foreign Affairs has had a price: "the price of a sad summer that we will pay throughout the winter."

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