SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 23 Aug. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Cabildo de La Gomera, Casimiro Curbelo, has accused Europe on Tuesday because it “has disregarded” the migratory phenomenon, which is a problem that has the Canary Islands “overwhelmed”.
The also president of the Gomeran Socialist Association (ASG), the party that governs the Canarian Executive in coalition with PSOE, NC and Podemos, has admitted that the “recipe” to address the issue of migration “is complicated.”
“It is a serious and serious problem that the Canary Islands have because we are overwhelmed even if the phenomenon takes place on an eastern island, in Lanzarote or in Fuerteventura, but it affects us in the Canary Islands. Europe has disregarded, it is the competence or Europe must interpret what is necessarily to imply because the Canary Islands are the gateway to Europe”, he pointed out in an interview with ‘La Mañana de la Cope’ collected by Europa Press.
He added that in the Canary Islands “means and strategies are lacking” to deal with migration, pointing out that from the archipelago “what can be done” is being done, but he stresses that “material and economic means are needed”, for which he understands that “there is a need for very clear” on the part of Europe that “it has not done so except to recognize that sometimes the migratory phenomenon is used as a throwing weapon from countries in the geographical area of Africa” but it is a “very serious” problem.
ENERGY SAVING PLAN
Regarding the energy saving plan that the central government will take this Thursday to the Congress of Deputies for its approval and which includes the 50 percent discount on bus and tram transport in the Canary Islands, Curbelo has clarified that the Economic and Fiscal Regime (REF), as well as the condition of insularity and remoteness from the continent, reflects the need to be served with “stronger decisions” that have a “stronger social impact”.
In this regard, he added that in relation to those who point out that the councils and town councils should be more involved, and taking into account that the casuistry of each island “is different”, he has affirmed that the Canarian councils contribute “as many or more resources as those that are received from the government itself by the organisms that are autonomous”.
As an example, he has indicated that in the case of La Gomera, the Cabildo contributes “many resources to attend to the needs that are being raised today in mobility”, citing in this sense the free social bonus for people over 60 years of age or for unemployed.
“We have been doing this for a long time,” he pointed out, adding that around the transport bonus there has been a debate that “is bottomless” although he admitted that he “agrees that this would relieve the island’s coffers.”
