Jan's Update

DISRUPTIONS
Parcent Mayoress Maria Carmen Lopez yesterday ordered the police to close down a stand that had been set up inside the annual Artisan’s Fair that was protesting and collecting signatures against the creation of three new Urbanizations in the town, in effect swelling the population by 1,800 people. She added that the protesters had no right or permission to seek signature or to protest at the future Urbanizations during a fair that represented a local fiesta. On two separate occasions yesterday the Local Police force tried to dislodge the protesters, but finally their efforts were in vain and the fiesta passed off peacefully.
Meanwhile it has been revealed that the European Court of Justice has issued a demand that representatives from Spain and the Valencian Community answer charges over allegations that new urbanizations set in areas outside any town do not have the relevant environmental study before being presented or approved. It was in April last year that the European Union opened a dossier against Spain and the Valencian Community for ‘lack of transparency and competence in the adjudication of the approved urbanizing plans in various areas of the Valencian Community’. A spokesman for the AUN collective commented: “If the Valencian Community forms a part of Spain, and Spain forms a part of the European Union, then European laws should be respected in the Valencian Community.”
Valencia Life