{"id":45139,"date":"2021-08-21T23:10:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T21:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=45139"},"modified":"2021-08-25T21:26:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T19:26:12","slug":"two-eu-leaders-flew-from-brussels-to-madrid-in-two-falcons-for-the-same-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/08\/21\/two-eu-leaders-flew-from-brussels-to-madrid-in-two-falcons-for-the-same-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Two EU leaders flew from Brussels to Madrid in two Falcons for the same event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our political class claims to be very concerned about the environment, but when it comes down to it, they demonstrate that this is not the case.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><big>A meeting with Pedro S\u00e1nchez at the Torrej\u00f3n Air Base<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Today the president of the Spanish government, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, met at the Torrej\u00f3n Air Base in Madrid with <strong>the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and with the president of the European Council, Charles Michel<\/strong>, an act that was also attended by the high representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell. The objective of the event was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamoncloa.gob.es\/presidente\/actividades\/Paginas\/2021\/210821torrejon.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the offer by S\u00e1nchez of the Torrej\u00f3n Base as a reception point for all Afghan refugees hosted by the European Union<\/a>, something in itself controversial. But there is a fact of this meeting even more astonishing and that no media has published. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ciclbh\/status\/1429097180959281155\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Twitter user, @ciclbh has denounced what happened<\/a> offering detailed information about the event.<\/p>\n<p><big>Von der Leyen and Michel flew to Torrej\u00f3n in two different planes<\/big><\/p>\n<p>This afternoon, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ciclbh\/status\/1429097180959281155\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@ciclbh posted a message<\/a> showing screenshots from the FlightRadar24 website showing that <strong>Von der Leyen and Michel flew from Brussels to Torrej\u00f3n in two different planes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"margin:20px 0 20px 0;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Hola <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vonderleyen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@vonderleyen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eucopresident?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@eucopresident<\/a> @JoseBorrelIF<br \/>\u00bfPor qu\u00e9 viajan ustedes en \u00a1\u00a12!! Falcon \u2708a Bruselas \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddea desde <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Madrid?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Madrid<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Torrejon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Torrejon<\/a> \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 habiendo adem\u00e1s muchos vuelos regulares?<br \/>\u00bfC\u00f3mo era aquello del <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EUGreenDeal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EUGreenDeal<\/a> y la emerg. clim\u00e1tica\ud83c\udf0d\u2600\ufe0f\ud83c\udf43?<br \/>\u00bfO es s\u00f3lo para &#39;sus s\u00fabditos&#39; europeos \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa?\ud83e\udd14 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O89ku3oBh4\">pic.twitter.com\/O89ku3oBh4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ciclbh (@ciclbh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ciclbh\/status\/1429097180959281155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><big>The two business jets belong to the same company<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Michel arrived in a private<strong> Dassault Falcon 7X<\/strong> with Belgian registration OO-LAH. Von der Leyen traveled in a private <strong>Dassault Falcon 2000EX<\/strong> with Belgian registration OO-GHE. The curious circumstance occurs that the two planes belong to the same company: Abelag Aviation, a Belgian company that has 18 executive transport planes. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ciclbh\/status\/1429099077598433286\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Twitter user @ciclbh has published these photos taken by the Efe agency<\/a> that show Von der Leyen and Michel descending from the respective planes:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51393254168_5aaa50a10d_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51392226492_1e0e5ff375_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><big>EU makes commercial flights more expensive to fight climate change<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Two years ago <a href=\"https:\/\/magnet.xataka.com\/en-diez-minutos\/vuelos-caros-siguiente-paso-comision-europea-su-lucha-emisiones\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Von der Leyen announced a \"Green Deal\" in the EU to make commercial flights more expensive in order to reduce polluting emissions<\/a>. That plan will make commercial flight tickets increasingly expensive for users.<strong> Meanwhile, EU leaders waste taxpayers' money and pollute twice<\/strong> as much by using two different planes to fly to the same meeting.<\/p>\n<p><big>Those attending the meeting had three different commercial flights<\/big><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ciclbh\/status\/1429102711123873793\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as @ciclbh has pointed out<\/a>, the EU leaders who attended that meeting this morning <strong>had three different regular flights to travel from Brussels to Madrid:<\/strong> one from Brussels Airlines, one from Ryanair and one from Iberia. So how do they explain that they waste money on two private jets, thus helping to pollute even more?<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"margin:20px 0 20px 0;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Habiendo muchos vuelos regulares que hacen ese trayecto <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bruselas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bruselas<\/a> \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddea\ud83d\udeeb\ud83d\udeec <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Madrid?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Madrid<\/a> \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8<br \/>Esta ma\u00f1ana a la misma hora \u00a13 vuelos! regulares llegaban a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Madrid?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Madrid<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Barajas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Barajas<\/a> \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8<br \/>\u00bfSaben ustedes cu\u00e1nto CO2 han emitido a la atm\u00f3sfera innecesariamente ? Un atentado contra el clima\ud83d\udca3\ud83c\udf43<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EUGreenDeal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EUGreenDeal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zJO02f4GTo\">pic.twitter.com\/zJO02f4GTo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ciclbh (@ciclbh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ciclbh\/status\/1429102711123873793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>It is immoral that our leaders are making life more and more expensive for ordinary citizens with the excuse of fighting climate change, and at the same time they are dedicated to squandering public money<\/strong>, chartering two private planes to bring two people to the same meeting, with the same origin and the same destination. <strong>If they do not lead by example, by what right do they ask others for sacrifices?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photos: Efe.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our political class claims to be very concerned about the environment, but when it comes down to it, they demonstrate that this is not the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10398,10429],"tags":[15399,11450,15401,15400,10454,11143,15180],"class_list":["post-45139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","category-second","tag-abelag-aviation","tag-charles-michel","tag-dassault-falcon-2000ex","tag-dassault-falcon-7x","tag-european-union","tag-josep-borrell","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 08:57:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}