The President of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, wrote this Thursday to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, asking that the Spanish-French summit on January 19th in Barcelona address the official status of Catalan in the European institutions and the improvement of infrastructure. reported the government.
In the letter, he reiterates that the summit is “a great opportunity” to move forward on these and other aspects that affect the lives of cross-border citizens on a daily basis, issues that he feels have not been adequately addressed and that require an urgent and essential response earn ., in his opinion.
In the chapter on governance proposals, he calls for strengthening by the Mediterranean macro-region; a cross-border mechanism to overcome the legal and administrative obstacles faced by these territories and support in applying for the official status of Catalan in the European institutions.
Regarding the infrastructures, he calls for the promotion and realization of the H2Med project; a common front to restore the original layout of the Mediterranean Corridor as part of the review of the new TENT-V proposal; Promotion of the new railway corridor Montpellier-Perpignan (France); Restoration and improvement of the rail link with Perpignan and modernization of the section of the R3 from the border to Latour-de-Carol (France).
It also calls for an improvement in health cooperation and the opening of border crossings “closed by the French government”. According to Aragonès, the Generalitat wants to share its knowledge and point of view “as a party concerned on all these issues”, which is why it is calling for joint work on all of this during the summit.
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