SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 5 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has confessed this Tuesday that they are “more relieved” in the Executive after the last European Council in which the ‘energy island’ was approved for Spain and Portugal because the price of electricity by decoupling the price of gas.
In response to a question from the Socialist Group, he pointed out that Spain “was playing a match point” at the European summit and “everyone recognizes” the value of the agreement that shows that the Iberian Peninsula has a “differentiated reality” from the rest of the continent since gas only represents 15% of electricity generation.
He has said that if the cap of 30 euros per megawatt hour is accepted, the price of electricity will drop and “it will be extremely important” for the family economy and the socioeconomic structure.
The president explained that it was also “complicated” to make debt and fiscal rules more flexible, something that the Netherlands is now requesting, which was the country most critical of the Spanish position.
Nira Fierro, president of the Socialist Group, commented that a year ago “it was shown” that “joint responses” to the crisis derived from the pandemic were necessary and that is why the reconstruction fund went ahead, regretting that while President Pedro Sánchez ” fought” in the negotiations “there were those who went to Brussels to torpedo, but the patriotic right of always lost”.
Now, he pointed out, “the energy system has once again become involved” and there will be an “Iberian exception” to fix the costs of electricity, which shows that the country advances “when there is strong leadership and solid arguments”.