The Diplomat
The European Commission warned yesterday that it will be attentive to the impact of the amnesty law that Junts demands to support the investiture of the acting President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, especially with regard to crimes of embezzlement that affect European funds.
This was stated by the Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, in an intervention in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) of the European Parliament in response to a question from PP MEP Javier Zarzalejos, who warned the commissioner that said law It would leave judicial sentences and ongoing procedures for “very serious” crimes such as embezzlement or disobedience “deprived of content,” Europa Press reports.
“Rest assured that we will be attentive to the way in which the dossier evolves, especially when there are links to the point you mention of problems of embezzlement or irregular appropriation of public funds,” responded the commissioner.
Reynders stressed that at the moment he cannot make an accurate assessment of the amnesty law because there is no formal document on the table that he can examine.
“For now I read a lot of things, like on other issues, but I don’t have texts at my disposal so I can hardly comment on any text,” said Reynders, referring to the fact that Brussels does not formally take sides on new national legislation as long as there are no firm proposals.
Until now, the Community Executive had limited itself to saying that it could not make judgments about a rule whose details it does not know and that, in any case, they are national issues and that it is up to Spain to decide how to act, as long as it is within the framework constitutional.
