The Basque Government has reached six commitments in the second management phase of the Generation Nex European Funds; Among them, Minister Calviño has shown her commitment to the potential of the Basque Country in terms of green hydrogen.
Euskaraz irakurri: Lehendakariak eta Calviñok adostu dute Europako funtsekin finantzatu beharreko proiektuak Euskadin erabakitzea
The Lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, has announced that the Basque Government has reached an agreement with the Spanish Government to decide in the Basque Country which projects to finance within the framework of the Next Generation EU Funds.
Urkullu and the Minister for Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Nadia Calviño, appeared together at the Lehendakaritza, after the meeting to address the second phase of the management plan for the Generation Next European Funds.
In his speech, the Lehendakari explained the six sections with the commitments agreed upon at the meeting. In the first place, he referred to the Sustainability Fund of the autonomous communities, endowed with 20,000 million euros.
In this sense, the agreement establishes that “the decision of the projects to finance corresponds to the Basque Government, logically, within the framework of the areas marked by Europe”. “We thus received a response to the demand for participation in the regional PERTE”, he added.
Previously, the minister, in an interview given to the “Boulevard” program on Radio Euskadi, assured that the Basque Government “already has direct management” of the firsts €850 million of the European NEXT recovery funds and added that it is managing them with “totally normal”. Precisely, in the last appearance (October 2022) before the Basque Parliament of the Minister of Economy and Finance, Pedro Azpiazu, he estimated the funds received at 785 million.
Among the agreements, the Lehendakari also highlighted that the President of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, has committed himself in writing to the Basque projects for cross-border interconnections in transport and energy, and has shown his “commitment to the potential of the Basque Country in terms of hydrogen green”.
“The Basque Country is one of the regions where one of the innovative projects will be located, as well as one of the first axes of the green hydrogen trunk network. Likewise, a proposal for underground hydrogen storage in the Basque Country will be analysed”, stressed Iñigo Urkullu.
Regarding the institutional visits to the Basque Country by the commissioners of the PERTE for electric and connected vehicles, industrial decarbonisation, agri-food and microelectronics and semiconductors, the regional Executive will organize informative sessions in which the sectors involved in each area will participate.
Likewise, Urkullu explained that it has been agreed that the loans received from the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism will not count in the Deficit of the Autonomous Communities, “as long as they are mobilized through financial operations, but they will count in the Debt, “for that each Community will decide the convenience of its use”.
As pointed out, this is the agreed path to channel the response to the figure demanded by the Basque Government for the MRR Bond.
In relation to the Corporate Tax Rebate Fund (R&D) and the Social Inclusion Reform Fund (IMV), it has been agreed that these figures will be analyzed between the technical teams of both governments, so that “compliance with the Agreement is guaranteed Economic” Basque.
For this, as explained by Urkullu, they will articulate a specific technical working group and has specified, regarding the dysfunctions detected in the amounts transferred to the Basque Country, that the broadband program in industrial estates has been reprogrammed, while the rest of Dysfunctions will be channeled through bilateral relations.
Source: Eitb
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