The bulk of 36 million has been allocated to the conditioning of Ifema although the diets of the more than 10,000 agents will also take a good bite
Moncloa already has the approximate calculation of the bill for the NATO summit in Madrid. The three days of international meetings on June 28, 29 and 30 will cost the public treasury 50 million euros, as revealed on Thursday by Moncloa officials.
The bulk of the bill will be borne by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and the Interior with a macro-contract of around 36 million euros for the construction, conditioning of the spaces of the Madrid fair (Ifema), audiovisual media, catering, posters, electrical installations or cleaning.
The other big item will be the allowances to be paid to the 10,000 officers of the National Police, Civil Guard and Municipal Police who will participate in “Operation Eirene”, the device that will shield the 80 caravans (Heads of State or Governments and spouses) of the 40 delegations that will meet in Madrid. Moncloa, for the moment, has not wanted to reveal the exact amount of this unprecedented security deployment in the recent history of Spain, which will indirectly involve another 20,000 agents, according to various estimates.
The Presidency of the Government has, in recent hours, provided other data on the great scope that the event is taking. The summit will take place in a space of 54,000 square meters of Ifema, the equivalent of 5.5 soccer fields. Although the meeting of the alliance will only occupy two of the twelve pavilions of the Madrid Fair, for security reasons the rest of this 200,000 covered square meter venue will be completely empty between June 28 and 30.
Moncloa expects that 5,000 people will move simultaneously in Ifema at the height of the summit. 2,000 will be delegates and the rest officials and attached staff.
In the so-called ‘Nac room’ will be where the plenary session will take place and will have a dimension of 1,700 square meters. A huge space -whose details Moncloa still keeps secret although it anticipates that it will have a “Spanish touch”- that can accommodate up to 290 people (the heads of the delegations and their closest collaborators). In Ifema, in addition, there will be 13 press rooms with almost 14,000 square meters to accommodate 1,300 journalists.
major disorders
The Presidency of the Government never tires of warning that the summit is going to cause major upheavals in the lives of the people of Madrid. For now, Thursday Moncloa confirmed that the Prado Museum will remain closed to the public on June 28 and 29. In the art gallery on Wednesday afternoon the so-called ‘Euro-Atlantic dinner’ will take place, the event personally devised by Sánchez to strengthen ties between the EU, the alliance and other partners and in which the Government is willing to put all the meat on the grill. In addition, there will be alterations to the bus lines, closure of some stations and intermittent cuts of some of the arteries of the Spanish capital.
This Thursday, the Presidency insisted that companies in the city of Madrid, as far as possible, encourage teleworking on Tuesday and, above all, on Wednesday and Thursday.
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