MADRID, 25 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Raquel Sánchez, has announced this Wednesday that she will meet with the Ministries of Navarra and the Basque Country to address the union of the Navarre TAV with the Basque ‘Y’ “before summer”.
In the Government control session in the Congress of Deputies, Sánchez assured that the Executive maintains “an excellent relationship” with the Department of Territorial Cohesion of the Navarrese and Basque governments to define the layout of the railway infrastructures and make possible the connection between Pamplona and the Basque ‘Y’.
In this sense, he has stated that they have “never” positioned themselves against “any planning” in this regard, although he has again recognized the existence of “discrepancies” regarding the project for the future connection of the high-speed corridor.
Sánchez has thus responded to a question from the Navarrese deputy Carlos García Adanero, who has expressed his “concern” that the railway connections will finally materialize.
On the other hand, the Minister of Territorial Policy, Isabel Rodríguez, has once again reiterated the “political will” to transfer the competence of Traffic and Road Safety to Navarra, one day after doing the same in the Senate Plenary.
Rodríguez has once again alluded to the fact that the process is “complex” due to various technical, operational and budgetary issues, but has emphasized that the technical phase is now “very advanced”. Thus, he has guaranteed to express himself with “more concreteness” in “the coming weeks.”
The deputy of Euskal Herria Bildu Isabel Pozueta has questioned the head of Territorial Policy after Senator Koldo Martínez Urionabarrenetxea, from Geroa Bai, did so in the Senate. Pozueta has made Rodríguez ugly that on Tuesday “she did not clarify anything” and has reproached him for not being “transparent” with the reasons that “block” the process.