 Good evening, Alba. Thank you for being here with us. Alba is for all the people that you don't know her, maybe she is the deputy mayor of the city of El Prat. The city of El Prat is the city nearby Barcelona where the Greens have been ruling the city since 1979. And for her is her third term on duty and she has a special responsibility that sometimes when the Greens are in coalition with other parties, like it is the case in El Prat, they usually don't take it or it's not very sexy or it looks like not very sexy. She is in charge, as I say, as a human resource management and economic departments of the city of El Prat. The budget is around 100 million euro, what is a big number. So I think that the first question Alba, if I may, is how is that how is that how you handle this important and more now unfortunately with the pandemic situation responsibility. Good evening to everyone. Well, I believe it's an important issue on what I've been doing right now. And I do too. I believe that it's a green way to manage this short time we have managing right now. And by managing less public part of the administration, I have been able to prove that always been a green way to manage almost everything in city councils. As you will say, it's a shame but the pandemic has accelerated the process that some had already begun, and those of us who have not begun has been forced to, which is the managing in a green way on the part of the of the administration. I understand that our manners to our way to manage the green economy is is to consider the economy that wants to make efficient use of resources while causing less impact on the environment and we can give two examples of a that the first one is is to do the real digital transition. And that's that's my obsession right now normally administrations are not the best example of digital modernization at least in Spain, but the pandemic has forced us to go very very fast with this with this kind of issues. I don't know if it's the correct word telework for many years we have been created jobs that tend to be very very face to face and the pandemic showed us that we have to be prepared to work from from anywhere from from any place. Next to this we have experienced the reducing for physical support like reducing papers elements. And in our case we have experienced a more reasonable use of time and less application of work, less application of process, and we have learned about about time management, human resources. And it's not that we work less. So, we take less time to do the same things. And of course with with pen less with pen less money and less less things we we still need to make some progress in the efficient use of energy, and this is the use of energy is the second idea I have been working on the last month. And that's a second example the ecological and the real ecological transition is setting our priorities right now as a local government, we have accelerated our commitments with the citizens to energy generation in in our city. And we want to generate energy within our, our main buildings. We have also working hard to make sure that the energy we don't need can be used for the for the community. And we noticed that our homes are not adapted to their situation. So, in other time, we are working on an important investment plan for the energy rehabilitation of our residential buildings, you know, so that our citizen will need more more comfortably. And I think these two examples require a huge investment, which not all the, all the councils are they all the administrations can do, but they also offer us great opportunities and a positive return so as I said, a rational use of time, energy and resources it's it's I think it's political decision we have to take we have to to value, and in our case, we have been reinforced by the pandemic so I think it's it's very important this year and in this important crisis we have, we have to face. Albert, you have mentioned in your nice words and clear words to to to main targets digitalization and energy transition to a zero a neutral CO2 local government. I think they they are, you are quite alienated, let's say you are quite in the path that the European Union is fixing. And now, as you know, there is a big debate still Poland and Hungary have to say, Okay, real life. So what are the, the position from a local government like in front of the budget 21 27 and the recovery funds that they are that they will come sooner or later they will come, but how you see the how how you think the local government should be involved, what do you think I think local governments have tried to to manage the pandemic with with loyalty with with high responsibility, but also with little information with in case of Spain with with few legal possibilities and few resources transferred from the state. But even before the crisis, the local councils will meet face to face work, because we are the first, the first door where citizens know when when they need assistance of the system. And now we are right in the middle of a new crisis, which is causing us in the last crisis from from 208 2008, excuse me. It's causing high unemployment, and it's been increasing inequalities here in Spain, and, and, and also the rest of the world. And the worst thing is, in my opinion is, we don't know how long the world economies will have to to face it will be affected. As I said, I can only speak for for the case of Spain because I don't know other cases. And I know the reality of the question of the competences and fiscal rules in my country. In our case, the local governments have been asking for more autonomy for years in order to participate for this election in in a balanced ways between territories being in solidarity with our administrations as we always have been. Because our main objective is to help the citizens of our municipalities with special attention to those which which need more help in the case of the local governments. And we need we need with with really urgency to be able to use our own money, our, our budget, our savings. Okay, so every municipality have been saving from the last years for what is urgent today. And first of all, social care, we need we need to spend a lot of money with social care with employment politics with transport public transport, of course, with energy and digital transitions. As I said before, we need our central government to be more flexible with with the conditions and with the destination of the savings that we made in most cases cases by a really I think a really good management of municipality resources. And in our in our case, you know, city of abroad have been have about 65,000 inhabitants and an annual budget, approximately 100 million euros. Since April, we have increased this budget, almost 6 million extraordinary euros to face the pandemic so we can do it we won't do it. So now we want to increase the autonomy to continue attending our citizens with collective responsibility with territorial solidarity. And I think this is the main demand of the of the of the city councils of the local governments to work for that for a better future for all of us. Thank you, but we have gone from local to Europe. And now my my last question because we don't have we don't want to to take you too much time today, maybe in the future for sure is next year. This is going to be the capital, the world capital of sustainable food for sustainable nutrition. How do you see that how is how you see especially from abroad, a city who was has been always very defensive of the agriculture land and the culture park and their own products and even once it was a big confrontation with the probably with a casting from that they wanted to put that you remember very well, even much better than the casinos in all the agricultural how you see this world capital of sustainable food. Well, I think it's important for Barcelona, but it's also important for the whole country, because it's a thing it's a recognition of a way of understanding the territory and the opportunities it can generate. We need to understand the important of the food system that we have, and, and also it's important this event to find sufficient support at the international level to solve many other problems of global supply. So I think food policy, in my opinion, can help to solve mostly of the inequalities to many rural or one territories will help us to solve the challenges that climate change poses in relation to the agricultural system that we want to promote. It will help us to solve the social inequality that millions of people are suffering less developed countries with constant food crisis will help us to solve growing health problems that have much to do with the environmental quality of the place where we live. It's a great opportunity to work for a for a more environmentally sustainably food system, economically realistic food system and, of course, more social and ethical food system, and it's, it's especially important in a place where the city I represent you personally believe a lot in this new way of understanding food because our city, we have been working on them the last 20 years maybe working hard to protect and recover agricultural territory that some people and some political tendencies do not seem to love too much. But I think we win some, some little battles we achieve to get the institutions to recognize the ecological and economic value. We have a very important agricultural park, agricultural field that fits the great city of Barcelona and for us it's not only represent the possibility of maintaining green spaces or in a very dense environment. It also represents the guarantee of maintaining protected European protected natural areas, maintaining some products of high food value, but it's also an opportunity for the local economy that the creation of many jobs and and it's essential to us, we which are very grateful from from one of them. Thank you, thank you very much in it. We have no more questions today. And I think for today, this is all the only thing missing is to thank you again and to wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year if we don't meet much better I hopefully hopefully that the 2020 for everything and for everyone. As you know, this is an interview in the in the framework of the, of the national project cities, a place of hope, which really will count, I hope with your participation in maybe life, hopefully in life in next events in Brussels or in other places on you. Thank you very much. It will be a pleasure.