The European Union is preparing new energy measures, the mask case continues to reveal details about the Transport plot and Hungary faces a new political stage with controversial proposals on public media. This is how Carlos Alsina summarizes the main issues of the day.
Measures of the European Commission to reduce the energy impact
The first are the measures that the European Commission is preparing and that Úrsula von der Leyen will present to the member states next week. The objective is to reduce the cost of fossil fuels and for these savings to be immediately noticeable in the pockets of Europeans. To do this, he will ask that the price of public transportation be reduced or made free; close public buildings where possible; or force companies to force their workers to telework at least one day a week.
Then there are others such as the extension of aid to vulnerable families, to the agricultural and transport sectors or to renew boilers or windows in homes with more efficient ones.
Brussels affirms that there is no immediate threat that causes fear for supply but insists that it is necessary to move towards energy independence.
Carlos Body is one of the ten Ministers of Economy who have signed a joint declaration in which they ask to avoid protectionist measures such as the hoarding of hydrocarbons, which would further aggravate the problem. The governments of Spain, the United Kingdom, Japan, Sweden and others are committed to helping other countries to ensure global stability.
It is the emerging countries, in addition to those in the Gulf, that are of most concern. We must prepare for difficult times if the war persists, the director of the IMF Georgieva has insisted, because there is a probability that it will end up triggering a new debt crisis due to the higher expenses that we have already begun to face.
The mask case and Aldama’s role in Transportation
Aldama entered and left the ministry without asking anyone’s permission. This is what a civil guard who carried out surveillance work at the Ministry of Transport has declared. So much so that the former Secretary General of State Ports Álvaro Sánchez has admitted to the court that he thought that Aldama worked in the Ministry and that is why he sent him the offer of a second company that offered masks and that was not Management Solutions, which was the one the commission agent worked for. He said that the ministry never asked them to look for a supplier but rather they showed up saying that they had found one. Management Solutions.
The former president of ADIF Pardo de Vera confirmed that Aldama was going to the ministry like Pedro was going to his house, who also testified and did so thinking about her own accusation in the National Court. She presented herself as a profound institutionalist who even went so far as to alert Ábalos of the assiduous presence of Víctor de Aldama in the area reserved for the minister’s closest circle in the ministry.
Magyar’s first measures in Hungary
Magyar Peter continues to explain what his first measures will be as head of the Hungarian government. One of them has attracted attention because while ensuring that it will restore freedom of the press, it has explained that in the case of public channels it will only do so if they stop propagating Viktor Orbán.
The objective, he says, is to be like the BBC with impartial information from all parties and controlled from parliament – of which his party controls two thirds.
The next prime minister announced this in a joint interview on Hungarian public radio and television where Orbán was interviewed weekly, but where Magyar himself had not appeared for more than a year and a half. A way of generating information, he said before the journalist who was interviewing him, that Goebbles and the leaders of North Korea would have loved. Needless to say, the interviewer felt, to say the least, uncomfortable.
