The government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, highlighted the importance of European policies to guarantee the rights of Galicians and Galicians. It did so at the celebration of the European Day organised by the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) in Vigo. The event was also attended by the deputy delegate of the Government in Pontevedra, Abel Losada.
The delegate highlighted the role of the Agency as a guarantee of a level playing field between all professionals in the fisheries sector in Europe and of sustainability “for the benefit of present and future generations”. Pedro Blanco also stressed the commitment of the Government of Spain to the sector, led by the minister, Luis Planas, which translates, among others, into the 48 million euros allocated in 2023 to fishing diesel or the 40 million from the PERTE Mar-Industry.
“The Government of Pedro Sánchez will strengthen collaboration with the sector to ensure the future of a fundamental activity in the economic and social development of Galicia, in a scenario of great challenges for Europe,” he said.
Pedro Blanco also stressed “the commitment to European values of a government of Spain led by Pedro Sánchez that marks the path to a new European Union strong in the face of difficulties and threats, at a time when more than 400 million Europeans are called to the polls.”
In this regard, he warned of the proliferation of anti-Europeanist discourses that undermine the principles of a European Union, which “all of us must defend in the elections of June 9.”
“Faced with the fallacies and half-truths” the delegate claimed the European policies, “which make it possible to create rights for people, as exemplified in the new environmental regulations, in the reforms of the energy market, in the crisis caused by the war in Ukraine or in the response given to the event with COVID-19, both at health level and through a Recovery Plan, which three years after its implementation leaves in Galicia 3,800 million euros, more than 1,000 open calls and more than 42,000 beneficiaries”.
In this sense, he recalled that these funds that are reaching Galicia and improving the lives of its people and its business and industrial fabric, “do so hand in hand with Europe”.
“Because the common European project allows us to overcome the dangers and threats united, always putting our citizens in the forefront”, he concluded.