<h6><strong>Eduardo González</strong></h6> <h4><strong>The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, has cancelled the meeting he was to hold this Monday in Brussels with the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, to meet, also in the community capital, with the European Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarcic, to address the DANA crisis, which has left at least 211 dead in the south and east of Spain, according to the new Government Agenda and confirmed by sources from the Ministry to The Diplomat.</strong></h4> Albares had planned to meet with Metsola and other MEPs to try to relaunch Spain's request for the use of Catalan, Basque and Galician to be authorized in the plenary sessions of the European Parliament. According to the Europa Press agency and confirmed by the aforementioned sources, Albares has postponed, without a date, the meetings scheduled for this Monday. In addition to his meeting with Lenarcic, the minister will meet with the head of the Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy of the European Commission, Themis Christophidou. The Minister of Economy, Trade and Business, Carlos Cuerpo, has also cancelled his agenda in Brussels, where he was scheduled to participate in the meeting of the Finance Ministers of the Eurozone (Eurogroup) and in a meeting of the economic ministers of the 27 (Ecofin), following the Government's decision to focus "the entire public agenda" on the DANA.
