News: Interview with the Lehendakari in Euskadi Irratia, Return to Bizkaia and US attack on a Venezuelan ship
The main media headlines are as follows:
- Interview with the Lehendakari in Euskadi Irratia: Just started the political year, the lehendakari Imanol Pradales will be interviewedin Euskadi Irratia from 08:30. On Friday he will open a round of meetings with representatives of the political groups of the Basque Parliament, with whom he will be asked about the intentions and concerns he will share.
- Vuelta, in Bilbao: The Gernika-Palestine Solidarity Grouphas called to denounce the genocide of the Israeli Government on the roads, as it did yesterday in Navarre.
- U.S. attack on a Venezuelan ship: Donald Trump has confirmed that his country has shot a "drug-loaded" ship that apparently came from Venezuela, but has given no further details about this alleged military operation in the Caribbean. "We have destroyed a ship, a ship carrying drugs and a lot of drugs, and you will see and read it."
You might like
UCO agents have not answered questions in the Navarre Parliament Committee of Inquiry by order of the Supreme Court
Santos Cerdán, José Luis Ábalos and Koldo García, one of the agents of the UCO unit, have explained the lifting of secrecy in the case that led to the prosecution of Adolfo Araiz, spokesman for EH Bildu.
The idea of banning the burka and the niqab has reached Congress: PP and Vox are in favour, but Junts will vote against
The Catalan party has announced that it will present its own bill to ban the use of the comprehensive veil in public spaces.
Eneko Andueza: "I don't understand Esteban's statements after Pradales and Itxaso have arranged everything."
PSE-EE Secretary General Eneko Andueza said in "Egun on Euskadi" that Councilor Denis Itxaso's statements by Aitor Esteban that he "crossed the red line" by criticizing lehendakari Imanol Pradales "do nothing good."
Otxandiano has considered it necessary to intervene in an "out-of-control market"
EH Bildu stresses that the most serious problem in the Basque Country and the main concern of the citizens is housing and criticizes the fact that the Government does not have the housing policy that the situation requires.
Ubarretxena highlights "progress" in negotiating Basque airports
The spokesman for the Basque Government has called for the Basque Country to be able to participate in the document establishing investments of EUR 13 billion and to have the power to decide on fees and strategy.
Alba Garcia: "I find it amazing that EH Bildu turns so lightly to the Basque right"
Asked about the left-wing alliance proposed by Gabriel Rufián, Sintre's General Coordinator, Alba García, has stated that EH Bildu has made it clear that the first option for an electoral alliance would be with the PNV.
Díez Antxustegi, on his relationship with the PSE-EE: "We are not in politics to quarrel with each other; I am not going to engage in such fights."
The PNV spokesman in the Basque Parliament, Joseba Diez Antxustegi, told the microphones of Euskadi Irratia that, in general, the relationship with the PSE-EE is good in the day to day. "If one day we have to listen we will have to accept something that we do not like, but we are not here to do it."
Representatives of the Government and the Spanish Government are meeting today in Madrid to discuss the competence of airports
On the other hand, Melgosa will propose to the Spanish Government that it support the process of regularizing migrants and recognize the Basque Country as the northern border.
The PP will vote in favour of Vox's bill to ban the burka and niqab in public spaces
Abascal's party initiative will be discussed this Tuesday in the Congress of Deputies.
Ubarretxena has a meeting this Monday in Madrid on the competence of airports
The establishment of the Subcommittee on Airport Management and Infrastructure was agreed by the President, Imanol Pradales, and the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, in the Bilateral Cooperation Committee in July last year, with the aim of analysing and discussing the various forms of transfer in the management of airports in the Basque Country.