The minister recalls that the central Executive has so far transferred 500 million euros to the regional government
The First Vice President and Minister of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Nadia Calviño, defended this Friday morning in Murcia, that the Autonomous Community has so far received “an unprecedented volume of European resources” within the Recovery Plan and that it What had to be done is “manage them well and accelerate and speed up” their deployment “so that they arrive as soon as possible” in Murcian society.
Calviño, who visits Murcia this Friday with a busy schedule ahead of him, reminded the media that so far the central government has transferred 500 million euros of these funds to the regional government and another 600 to finance company and university projects aimed at modernization of the productive sectors. Something essential, he said, to deal with the economic crisis resulting from “Putin’s aggression” that has caused a war at the gates of Europe. And achieve “strategic autonomy” from the digital, energy and agri-food point of view, among others.
Regarding the distribution of the European funds of the Recovery Plan between communities, the minister pointed out that a single criterion is not taken into account and that it is the autonomies themselves that have been agreeing on it in the more than a hundred sectoral conferences held to date. now. The government, she said, does not decide. Ministry sources later explained how, for example, Murcia had received more money in terms of population than other regions with more inhabitants, such as Madrid, Catalonia or Valencia.
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