The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, announced yesterday that “very important investments coming to the Valencian Community” will be signed in the coming days. Without going into details, the head of the Council made this advance during the opening of the forum Trobades Diners: Especial Comunitat Valenciana, which La Vanguardia held at the headquarters of the Business Confederation of the Comunitat Valenciana (CEV), with the sponsorship of CaixaBank and Telefónica. Mazón explained that they will be investments “in biomedical and technological research and in energy matters”, and pointed out that “we will, for sure, be an international reference in green hydrogen”. The head of the Mobility Projects Council also spoke and, without giving more details, he set a date: it will be known between next Monday and June 24.
The meeting was also attended by the mayor of Valencia, María José Catalá, who expressed her government’s will to “recover leadership at all levels” and gave as an example the 100 million euros that the Consistory expects to generate innovation in the next three years. In a national tone, the butler declared: “In the face of uncertainty, I will send a message of stability and I am joining this side, I am joining the side of work, the side of public-private collaboration”. And he added that “the rules, clear, and the employers, as allies”.
For his part, the president of the CEV, Salvador Navarro, commented that “today the business strength of the Valencian Community still goes unnoticed”. Navarro flagged the goodness of the Valencian territory and argued that Valencia is a growing investment enclave. “Investing in the Valencian Community is a good alternative, because our universities are increasingly valued, because we have a great industrial tradition, because we have an innate vocation to go abroad and because we are attracting digital nomads”, he to say.
The meeting was attended by Carlos Godó, CEO of the Godó Group; Pere Guardiola, commercial and expansion general manager of the Godó Group, and Jordi Juan, director of La Vanguardia, who opened the day. In his speech, Juan highlighted the interest of this newspaper to be “the hinge” so that the relations between Catalonia and the Valencian Community work for the benefit of all, in the image and likeness of the good climate maintained by the entrepreneurs of the two territories . “There are many synergies and many things can be done together”, he added.
The Second Vice-President and Councilor of Social Services of the Valencian Government, Susana Camarero, also participated in the forum Trobades Diners: Special Valencian Community; as well as councilors Ruth Merino and Nuria Montes and the president of the Chamber of Valencia, José Vicente Morata. In total, 14 speakers took part. A more extensive chronicle of the event will be published this Sunday in the pages of the special supplement Diners, dedicated to the Valencian economy.
