SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 3 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has asked the European Union (EU) this Friday for more flexibility to manage “the drunkenness” of community funds that has amounted to more than 7,000 million from the React-EU programs and Next Generation and 4,800 of the ordinary ones in condition of Ultraperipheral Region.
At the opening of a conference on the resilience mechanism organized by the Tenerife Council, he commented that these resources are necessary to achieve the “green transformation” of the islands, including the deployment of renewable energies, more training for young people or the elimination of the gender gap.
He warned that the deadlines for the execution of the funds “are limited” – the React-EU until 2023, the resilience mechanism until 2026 and the ordinary until 2030 – and congratulated the central government for capturing the highest amount of funds from across the continent. “It was a success,” he said.
However, he has warned that the deadlines “are dramatic” and there were countries that even wanted to advance them but understood that they could not allow “no euro to remain in the public purse.” “They will not forgive us,” he added.
For this reason, together with the ORs, they have already requested that the management be flexible and “adapt to the day to day” although without it remaining “in the dream of the just”, recognizing the problems that exist to replace public personnel.
Torres has appealed to resolve this issue with “common sense” and has indicated that the Executive has been approving different mechanisms to facilitate the implementation of funds in departments such as Ecological Transition, which accumulates 30% of the funds, the Canary Islands Health Service or Education, which has allowed us to obtain an additional team of 107 officials.
In his opinion, the EU has to “adapt” to each of the territories so that the implementation of the funds is quick and efficient and it can take advantage of the “opportunity” that presents itself to change structural problems in the islands.
