Von der Leyen supports the Environment Commissioner with Doñana and defends his management after criticism of the European PP

The spokesman for the European Commission, Eric Mamer, defended this Thursday that the president of the Community Executive, Ursula von der Leyen, supports the Environment Commissioner, Virginijus Sinkevicius, after the president of the European People's Party accused him after meeting with he of "partisan" behavior and campaigning for Pedro Sánchez, on the debate that has generated the bill to regulate irrigation in Doñana.

"The Commission is fulfilling its role of managing a file based on the legislation", the spokesperson asserted in relation to the demands of Brussels to the Spanish Government to comply with the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) , which makes it necessary to protect the wetland.

On the criticisms made by the leader of the European 'popular' against Commissioner Sinkevicius, a member of the Union of Lithuanian Peasants and Greens Obviously, Mamer has stressed that Von der Leyen "is aware of the actions of the members of his college ".

Along the same lines, the spokesperson for the Environment, Adalbert Jahnz, has defended that the role of the Commission in this process is strictly institutional and that its role is that of an "impartial guardian" of the European Union treaties, as already stated by this Wednesday Sinkevicius himself on social networks.

Likewise, he recalled that the Doñana file "has already been discussed a few times", since the commissioner has already held four meetings with Spanish authorities in relation to both the CJEU ruling and the Andalusian Government's bill to regularize irrigation in the wetland.