VILLAFRANCA DE LOS BARROS (BADAJOZ), May 5th. (EUROPE PRESS) –
First Vice President and Economy Minister Nadia Calviño stressed that the government is finalizing preparations to launch the second phase of the Strategic Project for the Electric and Connected Vehicle (Perte VEC) in June, in which she hopes the Gigafactory will be able to participate , promoted by Envisión in Navalmoral de la Mata (Cáceres).
A second call by Perte VEC, which will include the projects or the financing of the “strategic” projects for Spain in the field of batteries, for which, as he has stressed, he hopes that this plant will be “so important” “for Extremadura” can participate, can present themselves”, just like companies from Extremadura “take full advantage of this opportunity with European funds”.
According to data provided by Calviño, in Extremadura there are already almost 10,000 beneficiaries of the 1,400 million euros of European funds that the government has invested in the region.
This was indicated by the minister in Villafranca de los Barros (Badajoz), where, accompanied by the Secretary General of the PSOE of Extremadura, Guillermo Fernández Vara, she began a working day that will take her to various cities in the province. including Calamonte, where she will receive the “Adela Cupido” award, presented by the PSOE of the province of Badajoz in recognition of her defense of feminism.
For his part, Guillermo Fernández Vara, referring to the Gigafactory project in Navalmoral de la Mata, stressed that it will have access to three sources of funding that “guarantee” that this initiative can become a reality.
This “triple channel of funding,” as he explained, would not only be the Perte VEC, but also the Productive Industrial Investment Support Fund (FAIIP) and regional incentives.
