
Commission Official Defends Paying NGOs To Push for Green Deal
Embattled socialist Teresa Ribera said paid influencing was “not lobbying” but a way to raise public awareness.
Embattled socialist Teresa Ribera said paid influencing was “not lobbying” but a way to raise public awareness.
The EPP greenlit a Spanish socialist in exchange for an Italian conservative, even though Teresa Ribera said she won’t step down if prosecuted for mismanaging floods in Spain.
Teresa Ribera’s actions during Valencia’s recent deadly floods have sparked outrage.
The social democrats are ready to back conservative Italian Raffaele Fitto in exchange for Ribera again, but VOX warned that the EPP will become “irrelevant” if it accepts the deal.
“The European Commission cannot be the hiding place of a minister who owes a lot of explanations to the people,” the PP leader said, referring to Teresa Ribera’s mismanagement of the recent deadly floods in Spain.
Experts say the scheme cancelled by the Spanish climate chief could have saved lives and billions of euros.
Shocking new details have emerged about ignored warnings and delayed responses to Spain’s deadliest flash floods in recent history.
Ribera has aligned herself with a radical far-left agenda, just the opposite of what the elections showed people want.
The radically green politician demands to be put in charge of all three relevant portfolios—climate, environment, and energy—in the next Commission.
Teresa Ribera, environment and energy transition minister, wants a “social” Green Deal that also combats ‘economic inequality’