A delegation of German lawmakers on Monday scrapped a trip to assess the sustainability of strawberry production near Spain's endangered Donana wetlands as a war of words between Spain's ruling socialists and the opposition over water scarcity escalated ahead of a snap election next month.
The cross-party German parliamentary environment committee arrived in Madrid to meet environment ministry officials on Monday. They were then due to travel south to Andalusia to meet farming groups, environmental activists and local officials.
A long drought in Spain has put water management in the spotlight, particularly around the Donana National Park, a vast wetland which supports diverse ecosystems and wildlife but where water over-exploitation is exacerbating the drought's effects. The Andalusia regional government, run by Spain's conservative opposition Popular Party, wants to legalise irrigation around Donana despite warnings from scientists that the parkIt says the move would allow farmers to irrigate using surface water without jeopardising the underground reserves.
Sanchez made clear he would put his government's environmental credentials centre stage in the campaign as Spain faces a summer of record high temperatures, wildfires and water shortages.PP spokesman Borja Semper fired back in a press conference on Monday that Sanchez was seeking to destroy Huelva's strawberry-growing industry.Meanwhile, a German consumer campaign group, Campact, launched a petition on May 26 for German supermarkets to boycott berries grown near Donana.
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