The President of the Government, Pedro SánchezHe has appeared again with a calculated gesture and tries to appear normality in an act with Felipe VI In the Royal Palace Hours thereafter to apologize” For his former secretary of the organization of the PSOE Santos Cerdán.
In an action of the 40 Birthday of signing the EU attachment treaty, Sanchez has claimed that in the 40 years after the entrance of Spain in the EU The country has become a complete “democracy” Although he has admitted that there are still “shortcomings” and “problems”, while it makes it clear that Europe will always be the solution and never the problem.
“With shortcomings, without a doubt, like everyone else. With still awaiting problems,” added a government chairman who has shown a serious face at all times and only shared a brief comment with the President of the European Council, Antonio Costa, who sits next to him.
He emphasized that too “Several generations of fellow countrymen thought that Spain was the problem and Europe the solution”. “Now some call the opposite that the problem is Europe and that the solution is only a sum of sovereign nations, but that they would be fully subjected to this world of giants in practice,” he warned. In his opinion: “That vision is absolutely wrong.” “It’s a huge mistake,” he said.
Since for four of the ten Spaniards “Europe is no longer a desire, but a daily fact” Because they were born after the adhesion, “Among everything we have to take care of Europe.” “We are who must contribute to strengthening and transforming Europe, for good, a change and a transformation that is only possible with more Europe,” said the head of the executive power.
And he has noticed, andSpain will “be on the front line in these four decades, Giving the best of themselves to renew this collective dream that our European Union is and that is why we let it do under the inspiration of his motto, united and all and all in his diversity. “
The president has argued this since 12 June 1986 “Europe would never be a dream of ours again, but a shared reality”. “It would never be a refuge of freedom to look with some desire and a lot of envy, but our destination, our place in the world,” he had abundant.
In his opinion, seeing the results, “The journey has been worth it” Since in these 40 years, the Spaniards have lived the best moment in our history without a doubt. “Although he admitted that belonging to the EU has helped Spain, he also wanted to emphasize what Spain contributed to the block in these four decades.
“Spain has stopped being one of the tail wagons Of the European progress to become one of the most important locomotives, “he said, to ensure that our country” never doubted the European project, even at the worst moments. “
An action characterized by the resignation of Cerdán
The iUCO from the civil protector UCO That it was known this Thursday, which indicates the involvement of Cerdán in the alleged collection of committees, He has led the PP to decide that none of his members will go to the appointment. The event was invited, the president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, as well as former presidents José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy, just like the regional presidents.
The only high position of the PP Who attended has been the president of the Senate, Pedro Rollán, Because it is the third highest authority of the state behind the king and the President of the Government.
Neither did he attend the law, which the King, the former president has chaired Felipe González Exactly in La Moncloa was when Juan Carlos I signed the adhesion treaty on 12 June 1985 in the same column hall in which this ceremony was accepted. In his case he attended the ceremony of the Rojana Prize Prize ‘Alfredo Pérez Rubbalcaba’ to the Save The Children Foundation – Spain.
Similarly, there has been no representative of the coalition partner. Although the presence of the second vice president on the Moncloa agenda was, Yolanda Díaz, as well as the Minister of Culture, Ernest UrtasunAnd that of health, Mónica GarcíaNone of them went to the palace.
Before the start of the law there was a family photo of King Felipe VI, Sánchez-Die at all times with serious face, the presidents of the congress, Francina Armengol and Senate, Pedró Rollán, as well as the president of the Constitutional Court, Cándido Conde Pumpido. In addition to them, the only high European position that has moved to Madrid, Antonio Costa, president of the European Council.
