Maximum expectation during the appearance of Vice President Teresa Ribera to present his candidacy for the position of executive vice-president of the European Commission and Commissioner for a Clean Transition. You have 15 minutes to present your project. Then, and for three hours, you will have to answer one by one up to 48 questions from the deputies of the three committees which will be under your jurisdiction: 21 parliamentarians.
7:13 p.m.
Ribera responds by saying that it is necessary to invest in public services and noting that Buxadé “undermines” the credibility of institutions: “I fear that society is not capable of assessing the threats of climate change.”
7:12 p.m.
Buxade: “I should not be in the Commission but on the bench”
Vox deputy Jorge Buxadé assured that Teresa Ribera is responsible for the tragedy as head of the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation: “If you are commissioner, will you do the same, will you stop carrying out the planned works? You’ve known for 20 years that this could happen and you’ve done nothing. “I have no more questions to ask you: you should not be sitting in the European Commission, but on a bench.”
7:08 p.m.
First criticism of Ribera: “He should have addressed these words of condolence to the Spanish Parliament”
The first MEP to speak after Teresa Ribera’s intervention, the Dane from the Popular Group, Markus Ferber, criticizes Teresa Ribera that her first words of solidarity with the victims of DANA “should have been addressed to the Spanish Parliament”.
7:07 p.m.
The candidate for the post of executive vice-president of the Clean, Fair and Competitive Transition, the Spaniard Teresa Ribera, begins her speech at the Brussels headquarters of the European Parliament by speaking of Dana: “I would like my first words to be of remembrance, of ‘affection. , solidarity.” In Spanish and English, the Spanish vice-president underlines the importance of ecological and digital transitions and the balance between competitiveness and sustainability “to ensure prosperity”.
7:07 p.m.
“The atmosphere is burning. “I don’t like using the gavel,” declared the president of the committee before giving the floor to the vice-president of the Spanish government.
