The Director General of European Affairs of the Principality, Raquel García, raised this Thursday in Brussels the need to take the Just Transition Fund beyond 2027.
As reported by the Asturian Government in a statement, García has participated in the Belgian capital in a working group within the framework of the European Committee of the Regions in which he has presented the two ideas with which the Principality is working.
The regional Executive defends, on the one hand, that the fund goes beyond 2027 and on the other, that it does so under the same parameters with which it was born, that is, that it gives priority to those territories that have had to close their generation activities. energy through coal.
García has stressed that “not all green transition is a just transition”, although he has recognized the need for Europe to support all types of industries with a view to making their operation “greener”.
Furthermore, he has warned that this type of initiative cannot be carried out by diluting the weight of the coal regions in a hypothetical second phase of the Just Transition Fund.
The Government of Asturias has recalled that it has been defending this position before the European institutions for months within the framework of the negotiation that will open to design the new cohesion policy from 2027.
The Minister of the Treasury and European Funds, Guillermo Peláez, already explained a few days ago some of the priorities of Asturias in the face of this new financial framework, such as the demographic challenge entering the community agenda, and the regionalization of funds being maintained. of cohesion.
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