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The motion was voted for by the four political parties

The Municipal People, through his spokesman, Nuria Fuentes, presented at the September plenary session a motion to ratify the Ten Commandments written by the mayors who attended the meeting on the Mediterranean Corridor Castellón last September 7.

This motion has received votes in favor of other political groups present in the City, becoming joint motion.

The Mayor, Miguel Ángel Cámara, explained that "a claim is legitimate and necessary to ensure that Europe, Spain and Murcia combat the crisis. It is important for Spain to take the opportunities and the Government of the Nation declared priority for the transportation hub will improve and become more profitable, will generate more employment and jobs and will ensure the promotion of the activity in the Mediterranean "

Thus in the motion referred to the need to "join forces in a common defense strategy of an infrastructure that we consider basic to progress and prosperity in Europe. It was also agreed to ask the regional governments of Andalusia, Murcia, Comunidad Valenciana and Catalonia supported the initiative to develop the platform of the Mediterranean corridor, as well as its inclusion as a priority in the revised route of the railway transport network that will perform the European Union. "

With this motion the Municipal People's Party wants to ratify the Decalogue of the mayors of the capitals of the Mediterranean Basin, including Miguel Ángel Cámara, to defend the Mediterranean Corridor

In this decalogue include the importance of the Mediterranean Corridor as "one of the essential and priority to the cohesion of Europe and Spain, which guarantees the correct connection of the continent with the great global trade hub linking the Far East and the India with the United States and South America. "

Also listed its virtues explaining that "it is the fastest way to get to the heart of Europe (a savings of up to 500 kilometers from any other option), the most compact of those in Spain and which runs the busiest of goods from the Iberian peninsula, and has the greatest potential for growth and impact on the competitiveness of the whole of Spain. "

Similarly referring to the environmental benefit would be installed as "has another key mission: energy saving and substitution of fossil fuels to renewables to move towards a more sustainable Europe. Its construction will mean a reduction of almost 800,000 tons of annual CO2 emissions, a priority action in the fight against climate change. "

Therefore, the Municipal People in the city of Murcia, as well as the other eleven provincial capital of the Mediterranean Basin, is committed to "work together with economic, social and business and government at European, national and regional a common strategy for progress and prosperity for Europe. The Mediterranean Corridor is a matter of States and should be reality in the shortest time possible to ensure the competitiveness and cohesion of European regions "

This requires the Government of Spain and the European Union "to include the Mediterranean corridor as infrastructure priority in the review of the Central European Transport Network (Core Network)"

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia