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Recalls that the EU contributes EUR 1 billion for the European Transport Network "and we must do all possible pressure to Broker in 2016"

Rafael Catala shows the "Government's commitment to invest to reach Murcia the AVE 2015"

The Popular Party candidate to Parliament Ramón Luis Valcárcel has defended Wednesday the "need to fight in the European Union to bring Spain and Murcia infrastructures that are critical to structure and unite the territories, such as the Mediterranean Corridor".

Valcárcel has indicated that the Mediterranean Corridor is "very important to the interests of Spain and, in particular, in the region" and that "while the infrastructure is already included in the Trans-European Transport Network, he still has some development and even investments could advance. "

"And for this we must do all possible pressure on the EU to the development of Corridor intensify," he stressed, "so that by 2016 it that necessary connection, which is not restricted by the step France and, moreover, can 'pull' train 750 meters long. "

Valcárcel was speaking at the meeting held in Cartagena with entrepreneurs from the port city, where he starred with the Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport and Housing, Rafael Catala;

and the president of COEC, Pedro Pablo Hernández.

In this sense, the 'popular' candidate recalled that "there has been a call of attention from entrepreneurs to reach policymakers and the Mediterranean corridor we planteáramos in Brussels", so that "we have always been accompanied their claims. Now we shorten the term of the investment. "

As pointed out, "Europe is here, infrastructure have much to do with it, because, among other things, help finance them. The EU spends a trillion euros to the European transport networks."

Moreover, Ramón Luis Valcárcel said that "you have to fight in the European Union for the container macropuerto Gorguel" which was considered "indispensable not only to Cartagena, but for the region and-dare I say-to Spain ".

HIGH SPEED

In national key, Ramón Luis Valcárcel has defended the AVE as "one of the fundamental tools of growth of our territory" and that "if the AVE makes sense in the Region of Murcia, where else has it is in Cartagena, as prospects growth in Cartagena are infinitely superior to the rest of Murcia ".

"The high speed is essential and urgent to Cartagena, which is a great tourist destination, and the Government of Spain knows," said Valcarcel, adding that "not only has the commitment, but commitment and bring certainty to Region most likely 2015. "

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For his part, Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport and Housing, Rafael Catala has shown the "commitment of the Government of Spain to invest in high speed to Murcia and the project completed as soon as possible" after which pointed out that "just put in Beniel active variant".

In this sense, Catalan has indicated that "the first objective is to cut almost an hour and twenty the current time the rail link between Madrid and Murcia, to arrive in 2015, and that on arrival the AVE is perfectly integrated in the city of Murcia, which takes time and develops gradually. "

At the meeting held at the headquarters of COEC in Cartagena has attended a large number of personalities, as the Minister of Public Works, Manuel Campos;

and regional leaders of the PP, as the national deputy and mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro;

President of the Regional Assembly Celdrán Francisco;

Deputy Secretary General Communication, Francisco Bernabé;

and MP and spokesman Development in Congress, Andrés Ayala, among others.

Source: GPP