MADRID, 11 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The PNV spokesman in Congress, Aitor Esteban, has disgraced the Government how “safe” he was with his turn on the Sahara and the confidence he had in “having closed the circle” without foreseeing the scope of the decisions adopted by Algeria. “The southern neighborhood is very difficult, but you have to know what the chessboard is and that if you move pieces, others can also move them”, he said.
In an interview with RNE’s Parliament program, collected by Europa Press, Esteban indicated that it was foreseeable that Algeria was not going to sit idly by after President Pedro Sánchez endorsed the Moroccan route as a solution to the conflict in the former Spanish colony.
“That he was going to do something, yes; what was he going to do? or an increase in the number of small boats that have already “begun to arrive in the Balearic Islands”.
“I don’t know where this will end, but the government felt safe, it thought it had squared the circle with the gas agreement with Qatar, but the equation is not that simple and we can still see many things,” he warns, emphasizing that North Africa is “a hornet’s nest” and that Europe should pay more attention to the situation in the Sahel.
That is why he warns the Government that it will not be enough to wait and “extend the times” to see if “the tide returns to a low sea”. “I’m afraid not, the waters are very rough in North Africa and it will have consequences,” he points out, recalling that Algeria “is already moving very clearly towards Italy.”
“There may still be many movements and interests,” he adds, recalling that the “realignment” of Morocco with Israel has already taken place, which also brought it closer to the United States.
