MADRID, 18 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Government has today approved an investment plan for Ceuta and Melilla worth 700 million euros that will be used to promote both autonomous cities in different sectors, as explained today by the Minister of Territorial Policy and Government spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez after the meeting of the Council of Ministers.
Rodríguez explained that the Executive has today approved a Royal Decree to fulfill the commitment of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to apply comprehensive socio-economic plans to both autonomous cities with which to give them an economic and social boost.
It is, he said, a work carried out with social agents, local administrations and the Government and in which 17 ministries have participated.
In total, 700 million euros will be allocated in what will constitute, according to the Executive Spokesperson, an “unprecedented” investment in the autonomous cities by the Government. The plan consists of 140 measures and will be used to address a new economic model in line with the one that the Executive is applying in the rest of the country.
Isabel Rodríguez has given as an example of this that in Ceuta the plans for Vocational Training will materialize “very well” and in Melilla a part will be allocated to energy sustainability.
The second axis, as he explained, will be infrastructure and housing and in fact, he has indicated that work is already being done with the Ministry of Defense to allocate land to the promotion of public housing.
Health and Education will also be reinforced, remembering that in these fields the competences continue to belong to the General State Administration, which thus undertakes to reinforce these services. “The two autonomous cities have never been present like now,” concluded the minister.
