Ribera weighs his EU strategy against the nuclear label of renewable hydrogen while softening the tone with France

• It has two months to try to assemble a robust majority against it that should include up to 20 EU governments.
• Brussels insists on the exception with pink hydrogen and the Netherlands is more in line with France.
• Sánchez predicts that renewables will create almost half a million jobs and announces 4,000 new VET positions.

The third vice-president and minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, weighs what will be the Spanish response to the delegated act in which last week the European Commission opened the door to assimilate hydrogen of nuclear origin to renewable hydrogen -from sources such as wind and photovoltaic-. Faced with this decision there is no room for amendments, but there is an attempt to assemble a large majority among EU countries to make this regulation on the origin of renewable hydrogen decline. At the moment, the Spanish government wants to talk to other European partners, Ribera said on Monday, when it also softened the tone towards France after the exchange of angry messages that both governments exchanged last week on account of H2Med and the intention of Paris, so far achieved, to give hydrogen of nuclear origin a category similar in some cases to green.

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