Turin, Aug 19 (LaPresse) – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced that next Tuesday’s Council of Ministers will declare the areas affected by the wildfires as emergency zones. “This means the Government’s commitment to take on, once the fires are extinguished and the economic impact on all the affected municipalities is known, the task of reconstruction,” Sánchez said during his visit to the command base for firefighting operations in Jarilla, the worst wildfire in Extremadura’s history, with 15,500 hectares burned. “Faced with a crisis of this magnitude, institutional loyalty, a willingness to collaborate, and solidarity between territories and even between countries are fundamental, they are a priority in order to first contain and then extinguish these fires,” the Spanish Prime Minister stressed. “If the climate emergency worsens year after year, what we must do is go beyond legislatures and turn climate emergency policies into state policies that involve all institutions and all governments. The climate emergency is accelerating and worsening, particularly on the Iberian Peninsula, each year in an increasingly severe way,” he observed. “We must all get involved and commit to this climate emergency that does not respond to any ideological differences,” he concluded.
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