Spanish Gov urged to allocate EU funds asap3 Aug 2021 16:21
With part of the 19,036 million that Europe has sent to Spain to recover from the crisis without distributing it, it is still necessary to "set the criteria and figures" that each autonomy will receive. This was denounced yesterday by the Minister of Economy and Finance, Carlos Fernández Carried or at the end of the Sectorial Conference of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. He also urged the Government to "as soon as possible" specify the distribution of these aid "not only for this year, but for the next" and thus be able to "start working."
Carriedo also demanded that the communities have a greater participation in making decisions about where to allocate the grants based on the "real needs" of each territory.
This "greater participation in the decision-making capacity of the destination of these funds" to which the director referred, in his opinion, would make it easier to achieve the objectives and prevent them from being lost "due to lack of management capacity." " We have all asked for that margin so that the aid is destined to what is truly needed and that it does not come so corseted by the Government", defended Carriedo.
The truth is that this 'injection' for the economy is very necessary for Castilla y León but the Board fears that the criteria for granting subsidies do not take into account the main obstacles facing the Community, such as the area of ??the territory and the dispersion of the inhabitants. This lack of consideration, as the counselor recalled, has been seen in other distributions of European aid, such as the React Fund, in which the Community did not receive enough, according to Carriedo.
They are the residents, or rather, the absence of them, the depopulation, one of the great commitments of the Sánchez Executive when it comes to distributing the funds. Carriedo was suspicious and assured that, although the words are appreciated, this message must go hand in hand with "facts" through the "distribution of European funds and the new regional financing . " With the leap from depopulation to "the first political line in terms of intentions", as stated by the counselor, the Board demanded that the central government put "surface, dispersion and aging" as criteria for granting aid as useful way of dealing with the demographic challenge. "This is where we have to measure the government's intentions," he said.
Related to this demographic challenge, Carriedo also explained that he asked to begin "talking about the fund for local corporations" , something "essential" for the Community.
Another of the positions that the Board took to the conference is the commitment to "multilateralism" , as Carriedo put it, something " basic and essential" when distributing and negotiating funds . "Castilla y León is not more than anyone, but does not want to be less than anyone", the Community "does not accept privileges, but neither harm", he asserted.
Carriedo appealed for "equal treatment for all communitie
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