Lorca Mayor explained that "4,130,625 people unemployed in the country, 129,443 in the Region and 7,457 in Lorca, neither Spain nor the Region of Murcia, Lorca can not afford to do without even one euro of the funds the European Union provides for training of unemployed and economic revitalization. "
It is therefore, Francisco Jodar has called on the Prime Minister of Spain Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, before the deep crisis that our country is suffering, take the half of the Spanish Presidency of the European Union to European funds continue coming to Spain, and more specifically to the Region of Murcia and Lorca, with the same intensity as before.
If this were not so, Lorca would be affected, since the funds coming from Europe to develop projects like PROEMPLEO, among others, reduced its available funding would cease to be our region objective 1 area.
"We are convinced that training is an essential tool for overcoming the crisis, and this requires the support of the European institutions, which in this semester are as current President of the Union to the Spanish president," he added Jódar.
Jódar Francisco explained that "fortunately, the City Council have been doing homework, and before the end of the period of maximum EU aid to our region, we have some of these funds with programs like the Urban Community Initiative Program or the LEADER approach, to the districts high, which participates Lorca through Integral Society, but now the ball in the financing of training the unemployed is on the roof of the Government of Spain, which is who represents us in Europe. "
More support for the recruitment of unemployed agricultural
In the same vein, the mayor has asked the Government Office as well as the components of the Regional Council Executive Committee to increase aid that correspond to Lorca for the recruitment of unemployed agricultural workers in times of low activity.
Jodar has covered this claim in a technical report states that "since the 90's, the Executive Committee of the Regional Employment Board has not updated the data of the unemployed through the calculation is made for assistance to recruit the unemployed in the agricultural community. "
Lorca Mayor was speaking after making a negative balance of the increase in unemployment, "since in the month of February has gone up again in 82,132 people around the country, 3,130 people in the region and 226 people in the municipality .
Unfortunately, it is a situation that anyone could imagine that the Government of Spain did not take steps to resolve the problem, but on the contrary, spreads fear among executives that consumption will be reduced with the increase in VAT which will in June and with that scenario, unfortunately, there are few who dare to risk more. "
"The Spanish and 4,130,625 unemployed back to claim the City Council Central Government to take urgent and effective measures to remedy the bleeding stopped afflicting the country," stressed Jodar.
However, the Mayor stressed that "the increase of unemployed in the municipality of February 2010 is lower than it was in 2009."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca