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| The Councilor for Urban Agenda, Mercedes Bernabé, addressed this issue in a working meeting that she held this morning at the Provincial Council de Zamora, with its first vice president and senator, José María Barrios | The Murcia City Council and the Zamora Provincial Council share the importance that European funds currently have for the development and progress of local entities.This is one of the issues that has been put on the table this morning during the working meeting held by the councilor for Urban Agenda and Open Government, Mercedes Bernabé, with José María Barrios, senator and first vice president of the Zamora Provincial Council.Bernabé explained that "obtaining additional financing channels is essential for administrations that are closer to citizens, such as councils and councils.

For this reason we implement policies and strategies that favor the arrival of European funds to the City Council, with the that we can start new projects.

"Municipal experienceBernabé has presented the experience of the Murcia City Council in participating in funding calls designed by the European Commission.

A work that channels the European Programs Service, dependent on the Department that directs the mayor.To carry out municipal management in the most efficient way possible, Councilor Bernabé and Barrios have also agreed on the importance of local entities having sufficient funding from the State.More state fundingThe Murcian mayor, José Ballesta, promoted the signing of a manifesto with the first mayor of Alicante, Luis Barcala, to demand that the central government provide its territories with more resources and attend to the population growth experienced by the municipality of Murcia in recent years.

years, after gaining more than 80,000 inhabitants since 2000.Along the same lines, both Bernabé and Barrios have been against the decision of the Ministry of Finance to make use of the remainder and the surplus of the municipalities and county councils.

For the Murcian mayor, "it is an attempt to confiscate the savings of local entities."During the meeting held today, Bernabé also detailed the different initiatives that the Murcia City Council is carrying out to favor and encourage the implementation of sustainable development initiatives, such as the preparation of circular economy strategies, which have, among other objectives reducing the emission of polluting particles into the atmosphere and reducing climate change.

Examples of this are the Clean Air and Climate Change Mitigation strategies and the commitment to renewable energy and electric transport. 

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia