Centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) vice-president Siegfried Muresan warned Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday that Spain could lose EU funds over the controversial Catalan amnesty law, which Sánchez accepted in exchange for Catalan parties backing his second term in office.
EPP leader Manfred Weber and Partido Popular President Alberto Núñez Feijóo, along with other representatives of the conservative PP party, participated on Monday in the EPP Barcelona conference.
Muresan warned Sánchez that Spain could lose EU Next Generation funds because of his “attack on the rule of law”, in relation to the amnesty law – which the PP (and the far-right Vox party, third force in parliament) consider unconstitutional – is also an “attack on European rules”, EFE reported.
“European funds can only come to Spain if the rule of law is respected. The amnesty law is a clear attack on European norms and values. We have come to protect the rule of law,” said Muresan.
“We are concerned about the violation of the rule of law. We are with the Spaniards. We do not want to be silent,” he added.
According to Muresan, “Spain needs a prime minister who has the confidence of Europe, for Spanish citizens and companies. It needs a president who solves problems, not one who creates them”.
The EPP conference will also be attended by Madrid Mayor José Luis Martínez Almeida and Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani.
(Fernando Heller | EuroEFE.Euractiv.es)
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