Tenerife Cabildo to Meet with Councils on Middle East War Impact Measures

The island corporation will convene the Insular Council of Territorial Administration to coordinate economic and social actions.

Generic image of a microphone on a podium during a council session.
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Generic image of a microphone on a podium during a council session.

The Cabildo de Tenerife has approved an institutional motion to urgently convene the Insular Council of Territorial Administration to establish measures mitigating the economic impacts of the Middle East war on the island.

The island institution has expressed its firm rejection of the conflict in the Middle East, demanding a cessation of hostilities and a return to diplomacy as the only path to lasting peace. In this context, complementary actions will be studied to protect the citizens and economic sectors of Tenerife.
The objective is to present a package of measures that complement those already approved by the Government of Spain and the Government of Canarias, aiming to alleviate the crisis's effects. Furthermore, the corporation has urged the State Government not to exclude Canarias from aid, adapting recent royal decree-laws to the unique reality of the Economic and Fiscal Regime (REF) and its status as an Outermost Region (RUP).

"The first thing we believe needs to be done is to convene the involved agents to adopt measures that can adequately cohere the territory, that can adequately cohere the island."

a spokesperson for the Socialist Group
The institutional agreement arose from a socialist motion calling for the condemnation of the war and the adoption of specific measures for the island. After a debate, the island government (Coalición Canaria and Partido Popular) and the Socialist Group reached a consensus.
During the plenary session this Thursday, the Cabildo de Tenerife also approved an institutional agreement to definitively promote the recovery of San Marcos Beach, in the municipality of Icod de los Vinos. This agreement seeks to accelerate all pending administrative procedures, urging the regional Government to act with maximum urgency to allow the initiation of the environmental evaluation process for the project and the issuance of the necessary sectoral report on ports for its definitive approval.
The urgency of executing the project, already drafted and approved in previous phases, has been highlighted to provide a structural solution to the beach's ongoing problems. Additionally, the autonomous Executive is required to allocate a sufficient economic item in the budgets, preferably in 2026 and at the latest in 2027, to ensure the execution of the works, in coordination with the Government of Spain.