Brussels sees DANA as a reminder that the climate emergency “is already here”

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BRUSSELS Nov. 13 () –

The European Commission sees the DANA that has left more than 200 dead in the east and south of Spain as the “last reminder” that the climate emergency “is already here” and that “the security of citizens is increasingly compromised “due to global warming.

“Extreme weather events should prompt us all to ask ourselves not only how climate change can affect future generations, but how to prepare now because the urgency is already here,” highlighted this Wednesday the European Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Janez. Lenarcic, during a debate on DANA in the European Parliament.

The commissioner has avoided references to the management of the catastrophe and has limited himself to guaranteeing all EU aid, although that has not prevented the debate from being marked by reproaches exchanged between PP and PSOE.

The Popular Party has blamed the third vice president of the Government, Teresa Ribera, for the consequences of DANA, and has demanded that the socialists withdraw her as a Spanish candidate to be part of the European Commission, while the socialists have charged against the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón.

In this way, national politics has made the leap to the European sphere, since the PP has also used the management of DANA to justify blocking the confirmation of Ribera as vice president of the Commission while Brussels defends that the president of the Executive community, Ursula von der Leyen, maintains her confidence in her.