The PSD deputies will propose to the European Parliament the creation of a European strategy for issues related to drought and fires, Social Democrat José Manuel Fernandes announced on Monday.
“The PSD deputies will propose a debate in the plenary session of the European Parliament, with a resolution, so that the issue of the fires and also of the drought is seen in European terms, there is a European strategy for that, but then each one (countries ) do your part, do your job”, explained José Manuel Fernandes.
The Social Democrat, who spoke at the opening session of the 18th edition of the PSD Summer University, which will run until Sunday in Castelo de Vide (Portalegre), lamented that the Portuguese Government has not used the financial resources that available for these areas.
In Portugal, if there is something that is not lacking, it is economic resources, but if you look at the funds and the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) of the forest, it is zero”, he criticizes.
The PSD MEP also accused the Government of having achieved “non-imputability”, ruling out responsibilities in relation to the Serra da Estrela fire.
The 18th edition of the PSD Summer University runs until Sunday, in a traditional initiative of the Social Democrats that did not take place in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The youth political education initiative will receive the most media attention at the conference dinners: on Tuesday, the speaker will be former CDS-PP president Assunção Cristas, the next day former PSD leader Luís Marques Mendes, on Thursday, the socialist and president of the Economic and Social Council Francisco Assis, on Friday the president of the Lisbon City Council Carlos Moedas and on Saturday the Councilor of State and president of the Champalimaud Leonor Beleza Foundation.
The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, will also participate remotely in the initiative, answering, by video, 30 questions from 30 participants, after having done the same in 2018, but in writing.
Among the guests of this edition, there are still three vice presidents of the PSD: MEP Paulo Rangel, who is a regular at the initiative and will speak on European issues, and “deputies” Margarida Balseiro Lopes and Inês Palma Ramalho.
The latter will participate in a panel with former Minister Miguel Poiares Maduro on the topic “Portugal: New Inequalities.”
Among the “teachers” throughout the week in Castelo de Vide are the former Secretary of State José Eduardo Martins, the former Secretary of State and director of the Geneva Office of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Mónica Ferro, the economist Luís Filipe Reis, the university professor Raquel Vaz Pinto or the political commentator Sebastião Bugalho.
The closing of the Summer University is scheduled for Sunday at 12:00, with interventions by Alexandre Poço, Carlos Coelho and Luís Montenegro.
A hundred young people will participate in this edition (chosen from almost 300 candidates), with classes in economics, political science, health, communication or international relations, in a group that should be “the youngest in history because there are many candidates in the order of 20 years”, according to Carlos Coelho.
This will be the second high point of the PSD this summer, after Luís Montenegro revived the traditional Festa do Pontal, in mid-August, in Quarteira, which was attended by former party leader Pedro Passos Coelho.
Source: Observadora
