• Catalonia The Government asks today in Madrid for more infrastructure and to be able to hire more mossos

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The Government and the Generalitat of Catalonia have agreed to an investment of 1,700 million euros to expand the El Prat airport and turn it into an "

international

hub

", as detailed by the Minister of Territorial Policy, Isabel Rodríguez, after the bilateral meeting held this Monday.

This is an "extraordinary investment" that was not in the forecasts of the meeting's debate.

As detailed by the minister, 1,700 million euros will be allocated, which will mean the creation of 83,000 direct jobs and will increase the Catalan GDP by up to 2.1 points.

In the same way, and with the same purpose, 1,600 million will be invested in the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport.

On the other hand, a joint work schedule has been approved with which, among other points, to address some of the transfers that the Generalitat demanded, such as scholarships and study aid and skills on the commuter and regional railways.

An encounter that started with different approaches.

While the central Executive sought to grease the relationship for the next few months -after establishing the "reunion agenda" after the granting of pardons to the leaders of the

procés

-, the Government of the Generalitat came with the aim of achieving that Pedro Sánchez ceded and transferred various powers to the Government, as well as some nod to the demand for the de-judicialization of the independence process.

A gesture that, according to Rodríguez, has not taken place, since it was a "very executive" meeting in which previously progress had been made at a technical level, which has allowed, he said, to celebrate the meeting with a "relaxed atmosphere" .

The distribution of funds

Given the refusal of the Government to deal bilaterally with Catalonia on the distribution of European funds, the Generalitat finally participated this Monday - hours before the meeting between the State and the Government - in the sectoral conference with the rest of the autonomies, in which , under the coordination of the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, the criteria for the distribution of the 10,500 million euros to be managed by the territories have been specified.

In this sense, the minister herself clarified after the meeting that brought together all the autonomies that the debate on European funds "is part of the multilateral debate."

In the same way, the Minister of Territorial Policy has responded: "Normality requires that each debate or initiative must be addressed in its place"

In less than a week, the Generalitat has participated with it in two inter-territorial commissions.

Last Wednesday, the

Minister

of Finance and Economy,

Jaume Giró

, attended the Council for Fiscal and Financial Policy.

Between both meetings, there was the absence of Pere Aragonès to the Conference of Presidents, held in Salamanca last Friday.

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