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The President of the Autonomous Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, announced today that the regional government "has been in contact with several DGs of the European Commission to seek funds to mitigate the effects of earthquakes in Lorca."

The regional chief executive explained that the application of these community resources "is channeled through national governments or the European member states", so he added, "this morning the Minister of Economy and Finance, Inmaculada García, I has presented the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance, Elena Salgado, who presented these projects as soon as the formalities are started urgently needed to move this petition. "

Valcarcel said that the fate of these funds is "the housing recovery" and is ultimately "money caring for business and a wide range of performances."

"If the vice president on Thursday proposed to the development of the Plan Rubalcaba Lorca Solidarity with the purpose of committing financial resources as soon as today also have to keep taking steps that are being taken to complete the process for EU funds," he said.

Solidarity Fund of the European Union

Specifically, the proposed Autonomous application of economic resources called Solidarity Fund of the European Union, which is intended to help restore normal living conditions in the regions affected by natural disasters.

The fund, created in 2002 as a result of the floods in Europe this summer, established a mechanism for bringing the European budget of the Community institutions solidarity with people in regions affected in the event of a major disaster.

The regional chief executive stressed the importance of "all institutions do our part to reach that normality as soon as possible to the town of Lorca," and said the regional government's effort to make it happen, "because it will fund half aid that contains the Royal Decree approved last Friday by the Council of Ministers. "

Holcim agrees to repair the church of Santiago

The regional chief executive was speaking after witness first hand the damage wrought by the earthquakes in the Sanctuary of the Virgen de las Huertas de Lorca and work safety have been initiated.

During his visit, which was accompanied by the local mayor, Francisco Jodar, the president also announced that the multinational Holcim, who works in Lorca, has expressed its commitment "to fully recover the church of Santiago."

The President highlighted the efforts undertaken by the Municipality and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism "to realize very quickly that commitment" and said that such gestures "produce joy in the desolation, encourage us not to take any step backwards and pursue this in this line of work. "

Subsequently, the regional chief executive traveled with the mayor, and the Minister for Education, Training and Employment, Constantine Sotoca, the Secondary School Ibáñez Martín.

Source: CARM