• Politics The Government makes a surprise agreement with Catalonia to invest 1,700 million in the El Prat airport

The Government knows that the fracture of the independence movement is its main weakness to be strong at the dialogue table. For this reason, just over a month after it is celebrated and with the agreement for the expansion of the recent El Prat airport, which has raised blisters between sectors of the Cup, the president of the Generalitat Pere Aragonès urged to achieve "maximum force "as well as" weaving complexities "between sovereign sectors to demand amnesty and self-determination in the form of a referendum at the dialogue table.

Therefore, this August will be key for sovereign parties and entities to reach a minimum agreement that allows them to attend with guarantees to this dialogue table in which the Government does not want to give up anything, so it will be an "extremely difficult" meeting . Faced with this situation, Aragonès himself will lead the Catalan delegation in his meeting with the State the third week of September in Barcelona. He considers it to be "the most complex negotiation, but also the most ambitious" and added that "it is an opportunity to lay the foundations of the negotiation, and no one said that this would be easy or that we get the amnesty and the self-determination referendum" One day to another.

"We do not ask anyone to renounce other strategic alternatives, what we say is that in this bet we go as many accompanied as possible and with all the ambition," said Aragonès regarding his JxCat and Cup partners much less optimistic with the dialogue table.

Thus a "national agreement" is forged between the political forces of Catalonia to sustain and support the negotiations, although the contacts between parties and entities "are discreet."

Conditioned airport

The agreement reached this Monday between the Government and the Generalitat to expand the Barcelona-El Prat Airport is on the way to becoming a new source of conflicts not only between the parties that make up the Catalan Executive but with similar formations such as the Cup or 'commons', they depend on to approve budgets. The attacks on the pact for this infrastructure were from so many areas, including the mayor of Barcelona Ada Colau joined, that the president of the Government, Pere Aragonès, had to go out publicly to ensure that the expansion will only be made if "absolute respect is guaranteed to the environmental requirements of the European Commission, demands that we make in line with the objective of advancing with the objectives of the 2030 agenda ".

In this sense, the Catalan president assured that they will comply with what the European Commission dictates and that the corresponding compensations will be applied with respect to the Delta de Llobregat natural park, in danger according to ecologists due to the expansion. In addition, he challenged the 'commons' to improve the project, they are already in the Government: "We are not there. They are. We have assumed our responsibilities, that they do so in the Council of Ministers if they believe they can improve it."

The Barcelona City Council regretted that the extension agreement was closed without communicating it to the institutional table in which the Generalitat and affected municipalities were working to reach a consensus on a solution to that work, although Aragonès revealed that he called Ada Colau to explain it. In addition, the president pointed out that the expansion is still technically disconnected and that therefore a master plan for the airport must be drawn up with all the administrations involved.

Aragonès pointed to the Cup to ensure that the expansion will respect "biodiversity and the environment", although without specifying, as they are pending from the European Commission. In this sense, he indicated that "this does not work saying let's expand the airport and it has been decided; let's get to work and do it well, not asking for membership with an act with 250 people, but if there are alternatives, if there is to be any compensation."

In this way, he urged "to specifically specify this expansion of the airfield, if it is possible to have intercontinental flights, how it is reflected on the ground, a strategic environmental assessment and work with the European Commission will have to be carried out. There are many months left to finalize the The form that El Prat will have in three or five years. There is a principle of agreement that is 1700 million of investment, let's not let them lose, but how they are specified will be determined in the master plan of the airport that we will work at the institutional table with all the administrations ".

Colau's rejection

The mayor of Barcelona, ​​Ada Colau, considers that the expansion project is "a model of the past, which does not learn from the mistakes of the past. It is a business for a few companies that want to make large profits in the short term, at the cost of speculation. with the territory, this has already been a failure that should not be reproduced. " That is why he urged the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, and the President of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, to "rectify" and reiterated that the expansion agreement "is absolutely incompatible with the fight against climate change."

For the mayor, the expansion project "fails to meet all commitments in the fight against climate change because it means increasing emissions, instead of reducing them." "What Aena's expansion proposal proposes is the economy of the last century, of the pitch, of speculation, of the destruction of the territory. The only thing that it guarantees is to increase 20 million visitors, basically from mass tourism, a model that belongs to to the past, which has caused great imbalances and that the territory cannot assume more, "he said.

He also regretted that the agreement was closed "in a practically secret meeting" and "with its back to the citizens and the institutional table", which throughout the month of July has brought together different administrations to debate the issue. The mayor expressed her "profound disappointment" with the role of the vice president of the Government and minister of Digital Policies and Territory, Jordi Puigneró, whom she has accused of becoming "the spokesperson for Aena and buying 100% of the speech" of the airport manager .

The Cup considered that the expansion project is an "ecological and climate attack" that is "incompatible with reducing emissions" and deepens an "unsustainable model".

"We reject the agreement between the State and the Generalitat for the expansion of the El Prat airport. It is an ecological and climate attack that does not respect the territory, is incompatible with the reduction of emissions and continues to deepen an unsustainable and precarious model," they said. by social networks.

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