Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-001272/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Ana Miranda Paz (Verts/ALE)
The European Commission has selected seven strategic projects in Spain, one of which is the Galician mine in Doade in the municipality of Beariz (Ourense). The Galician territory is arousing much speculative interest on the part of transnational mining companies regarding access to strategic minerals, given the current geostrategic situation and the European Union’s interests in strategic autonomy and rearmament, which run completely counter to the need for public control of these critical raw materials throughout their life cycle, the need for public participation of the local communities affected and the oversight of transparent award procedures with environmental and social safeguards, which has not been the case when it comes to the Partido Popular government in Galicia, which pursues an extractivist policy and allows the plundering of the resources of the constituency that I represent.
I would therefore like to ask:
Can the Commission confirm that it will guarantee the participation of the local communities affected and that, in the event that this strategic project for a critical raw material – which lithium is – runs counter to the public interests of Galicia, they will be able to decide not to grant approval for the development of this mine?
Submitted: 26.3.2025