Teresa Ribera It already reaches more than 100 days as vice president of the European Commission at a decisive moment for the EU. The ‘number two’ of the Community Executive, responsible for the clean transition and competition, explained that one of the EU’s great difficulties is in “how to metabolize” changes that are not expected and wanted to highlight “the shaking which represents that for so long we have assumed that one progresses and is only betterassuming that what we enjoy is guaranteed. “And that, he said,” It is not true “; there is no need to give anything.
“We are in A critical momentand we have to share our resources, “said the Spanish leader, because” today they are discussed with false arguments both the facts and one’s words, “Ribera added, with examples such as” the right of countries to defend their borders. “ It has been shown that European values are not all for themselvesand had a message for the US that no longer works on an international order based on rules. “This is a cocktail of realities that is generating a very important debate” that has nuances between countries but should serve to “return to the basics” in the global order.
Ribera could refer to Brussels plans for defense and security, and the debate that raises that road map, with doubts about the word “rearma”, expressed for example by the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez. “The debate is what we should focus our efforts. Security is very wide”recognized the vice president of the commission, mentioning elements such as cybersecurity, climate change or underwater interconnections. “It is not just military policy and we need to have enough tools for everything,” he said, because “we have lived episodes of great vulnerability,” in reference for example to the Covid pandemic.
He referred to “classic” defense and security, about weapons, for example, but wanted to emphasize precisely the breadth of the concepts. In this sense, the EU was born for peace but now has to prepare for a possible war. “The fact that the Spaniards do not feel the war close, for example” because they are far from the flank of this “It is striking” but also shows that “they are more optimistic about their own future.” Ribera, therefore, assumed the different positions between the Member States, in relation to the data of the last Eurobarometer. “There is a risk of fracture of the unit, with which some international actors are playing that even our interlocutors.”
“The EU of defense is not something that appears today,” Ribera recalled; It is a concept that has always been in the imaginary of the European project, like others, that have been “lazy”. And he launched a notice: “If one for or accepts a fissure, the project falls”. That is European integration, Ribera recalled, who requested that the Union work at the same time on several fronts, not only from the point of view of security, but also on the single market, savings capacity, banking union or the unit regarding investments or energy.
Tanks or butter? That is the simile. “Tanks and butter or tanks or butter,” Ribera was questioned, for whom the solution is to “deepen” in a more federal Europe: “You have to have more resources and find the most efficient way to manage them.” That means that the EU has to work towards common solutions.
He did not buy Ribera that the EU plan is “militaristic” when talking about security: “Try to avoid vulnerabilities, Only with the military side we cannot do or face such a brutal attack Like the one that has been lived in these years. “That implies” the creation of well -being, “he argued. Working on that also implies” having a unique voice in fundamental policies “, such as external action, he said in reference to the situation also in Gaza.” Concepts, words, budgets are reduced, “he summarized, in reference to the current policy of the United States.”It is important that we know how to value the construction of a predictable system and that is based on rules that are respected. “
“If one for or accepts a fissure, the project falls”
The vice president of the commission all this has been seen “in small doses” in recent years: “or we go out with much more Europe or we run the Risk of dynamiting what has been the greatest adventure of peace and success that has been lived in the world“. That is, Ribera acknowledged, continue breaking taboos that have to be seen taking into account the positions of the countries, but the” important thing is to understand that there is a common space much more solid than we can imagine. “Europe, therefore,” “it cannot be the weakest link” because there are actors like Russia that are seeing “what are the limits” of the resistance of the union.
“I am not so negative, but I think there are many dimensions, including the need to invest in ourselves” so that society perceives “progress and freedom” as time passes. “You have to invest in our ability to continue improving”; There, the EU “is able to generate wealth for everything” without unbalanced other items, but it has to do with how. In that debate is the union. It is relevant there to think of “the common mass” against individual decisions, said Ribera, who wants to substantiate those issues in the coming weeks.
As for the issues that directly affect their chores, Ribera assumed that Europe is going behind in development, but cannot lose the technological careers that are pending. “We can’t lose them, and the question is How we make regulatory decisions to respond to demands of citizens. “On that path goes the competitiveness compass that he exercises as a pillar of the legislature for the commission.” Let’s not fool ourselves, the great element from the point of view of competitiveness is how to be clean and efficient with high quality. The big engines are the green engines. “For Ribera” who They want to destroy the green agenda are attacking citizens. “
“It is capital to see what are the conditions that guarantee a fair level in the market. If Europe is attractive in the market, we must ensure that high standards are met” so as not to allow others to compete “in a cheating way,” the Spanish nuanced during the conversation. “For many people we are boring that we ask that the basic principles be respected”he added; That is the way, but “it does not mean that we have to be crying in a corner” in front of actors who squeeze on all sides. “This defends itself by acting, making decisions, looking for the way in which our industry is accompanied with resources.”
Thus, the EU has to “facilitate but not decompose” the dynamics of the industry; “You have to identify the decisions to be made,” he said, remembering the reports of Letta and Draghi: “We are building more than a market.” And that implies taking “steps that can be complex.” There the great argument repeated: “More Europe, let’s think that everything is resolved much better when we look beyond the limitations of the local. None are going well if we are going alone.”
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