The national spokesperson for the BNG, Ana Pontón, has valued the definitive shelving of the industrial project that the Portuguese multinational Altri intended to build in the Lugo municipality of Palas de Rei as a historic achievement for Galicia. In her opinion, it is "a victory for the Galician people...
Galician MEPs from PPdeG, PSdeG, and BNG, Francisco Millán Mon, Nicolás González Casares, and Ana Miranda, have defended this Thursday in the European Parliament the need for a thorough reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) adapted to the reality of Galicia. The Bloque representative also took advantage of her...
The technical general secretary of the Consellería do Mar, Marta Barreiro, has downplayed the seriousness of the situation reported by the BNG in the Gardacostas service, referring to it as "transitory limitations," in contrast to the "precariousness" that the Bloc attributes to a staff roster in which it estimates that...
The Parliament of Galicia has given the green light, thanks to the absolute majority of the PPdeG, to an initiative to demand the call for general elections, a proposal that has been rejected by all opposition groups. The PSdeG has denied that there is "blockage" in the central Executive and...
The deputy spokesperson for the BNG in the Galician Parliament, Luís Bará, has accused the president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, of "cowardice" for the "maneuver" of grouping into a single block the questions that the nationalist leader, Ana Pontón, and the general secretary of the Galician socialists, José Ramón...
The deputy spokesperson for the BNG in Parliament, Luís Bará, has proposed the creation of a specific committee to address the climate emergency and the implementation of a shock plan with concrete measures and an "extraordinary" budget in the face of what he defines as the Xunta's "indifference" to the...
The BNG deputy in Congress, Néstor Rego, has presented several parliamentary initiatives for the Government to detail the causes of the incident registered on June 29 on the Feve line between Ferrol and Ribadeo, as well as the balance of accumulated problems on this metric gauge line.In the registered documentation,...
The Director General of Fisheries Development, Ángeles V. Suárez, has defended the actions promoted by the Ministry of the Sea against the expansion of the Asian alga Rugulopteryx okamurae, measures that, as she has underlined, have been designed and applied "with scientific rigor".During her speech in the Fisheries Commission, the...
The MEP of the BNG, Ana Miranda, has presented this Thursday before the Directorate-General for Environment of the European Commission the "deficiencies" she considers the Xunta de Galicia has in the prevention and extinction of forest fires, accusing the Galician government of "non-compliance" with community regulations, including the Nature Restoration...
The national spokesperson for the BNG, Ana Pontón, responded this Wednesday to the criticisms of the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and the president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, regarding the provision of the Democratic Memory Law known as the "grandchildren's law," which facilitates the acquisition of nationality...
The PSdeG and the BNG agreed this Tuesday to censure the Popular Party for having launched the non-permanent study commission on the factors influencing the price of milk in Galicia "applying the steamroller".The session held this day served, at least, to set the calendar in which the parliamentary groups can...
The president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, has reproached that the PSdeG and the BNG "accept" the new wording of the law for the transfer of the AP-9 approved in Congress and that, as he has warned, "leaves absolutely open the possibility" that Galicians "assume the amount that the government...
The Organic Law project for the protection of minors in digital environments, which would prohibit access to social media for children under 16, continues its processing in Congress after the meeting of the Committee, in which various amendments registered by the different parliamentary groups have been approved.Sources from the PSOE...
The Plenary Session of Congress gave its approval this Thursday to the law on the AP-9 that will allow the management and ownership of this highway to be transferred to Galicia. The rule will now continue its parliamentary journey before the transfer is finalized in a bilateral commission between the...
The BNG deputy in Congress, Néstor Rego, has considered that President Pedro Sánchez's responses to his parliamentary allies do not constitute the "most adequate" nor "the most reasonable" reaction, although he "understands it in the context" in which they occurred.From the corridors of the Lower House, the nationalist representative recalled...
The Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) maintains that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, must remain at the head of the Executive, but with the objective of "fulfilling all pending commitments" with Galicia. However, the party has already warned that it will not give him "a blank check."The BNG deputy...
The Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) on Tuesday reproached President Pedro Sánchez for his Executive still not having advanced "a single measure" of democratic regeneration and maintains that settling that debt is the appropriate way to assume his political responsibilities after the 'mask case' ruling.In an appearance in Congress, BNG deputy...
The national spokesperson for the BNG, Ana Pontón, has urged the PP to "rectify" this Thursday in the Congress of Deputies and support with their vote the transfer of the AP-9 highway.In a press conference, Pontón highlighted the "long battle" waged by Galician nationalism "to reverse the scam" that she...
BNG and PSdeG have once again coincided in denouncing the "judicial persecution" that, in their opinion, Begoña Gómez suffers "for being the wife of the President of the Government," Pedro Sánchez.In a press conference, the national spokesperson for the BNG, Ana Pontón, has described the latest decision by Judge Juan...
The BNG MEP, Ana Miranda, has reiterated her vote against the reform of the European policy on the deportation of people arriving in the member states of the European Union (EU) and the European return regulation, which she has described as "shameful".In a statement, Miranda emphasizes that this is one...
The BNG deputy Daniel Castro has denounced that the Xunta intends to "control" the Interuniversity Commission of Galicia (CiUG) by modifying the regulations that define its powers, while the Minister of Education, Science, Universities and Vocational Training, Román Rodríguez, has reproached the nationalists that "they do not care about the...
The Minister of Health, Antonio Gómez Caamaño, has defended that health services, including the Servizo Galego de Saúde, only resort to qualified doctors without specialization in very specific situations and for "exceptional causes" in order not to "close services".He stated this Wednesday during the plenary session of the Parliament of...
The Minister of Health, Julio García Comesaña, has defended that the Galician Health Service only resorts to doctors with a degree but without a specialty in "exceptional cases" and with the aim of avoiding "closing services".He stated this on Wednesday during the plenary session of the Parliament of Galicia, in...
The Minister of Finance and Public Administration, Miguel Corgos, has once again stressed that any meeting with the central government to review the autonomous community financing system must be "multilateral" and held within the framework of the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council."The only meeting that interested the Government was already...
The PSdeG and the BNG have held the regional Executive responsible this Tuesday for unleashing a "catastrophe" by "storming" the direction of the Galician Center for Contemporary Art (CGAC), generating "unease" in the entire cultural sector.The controversy over the appointment of the museum's new management once again focused the clash...