A DISGUISED FORCED RECTIFICATION OF ABSURD PATRIOTISM

After the PP voted last week against a motion of CiU that claimed that I Foment it considered the Mediterranean corridor as "the priority" in transport of goods, the minister of the field, Ana Shepherd, has assured this Tuesday that the investments are centered now in those infrastructures that are "planned and in march", I eat the conversion of the whole Mediterranean corridor for example in wide UIC (European). Shepherd has affirmed that the bet for the central corridor is to longer term, and she responds to the necessity of planning to 20, 30 or 40 years seen. In any event, she said, the Mediterranean corridor won't be able to be clever "tomorrow" because they "lack" 47.000 millions to invest. 

Shepherd has made these manifestations in an informative breakfast where they attended the minister of Industry and Justice, besides the one of External. The minister declarations contrast with the decision of Development of including in their proposal of the Net Transeuropea of Transports the connection of the State with France through the central corridor and for the center of the Pyrenees, an option that the UE had already discarded previously for expensive and not very profitable. 

This Tuesday the minister has explained that the proposal that the Spanish Government has sent to the UE it includes the "bets" of the State for the next ones "20, 30 and 40 years" and that he doesn't have anything to see" what is the current public investment with the planning of corridors for the 2050. The excuse is she goes on pilgrimage to more not to be able to because the politicians are unable to recognize their slips or errors the position of a central corridor it is the logistical but absurd idea that can be happened to anybody and less to an or a minister of works you publish the flows of loads in 20,30y 40 years they will continue arriving of east through the Mediterranean and the flows of the Atlantic one will continue arriving for the current marine routes with their arrivals in the ports of the north of France and Holland. Of there the interest of the UE comes in financing some rail corridors that unite both European rivers the Atlantic one and the Mediterranean one.   

According to Shepherd, with the inclusion of the central corridor in their petitions, the Spanish Executive what is making is to defend the proposals of corridors that were already in the European map in 2004 and that later on they fell of the planning of community funds. "And or you battle him in Europe, and if they not tell me, in the future I will follow it battling", she said. It is inconceivable this posture in it tins there are three or four planned rail corridors more or less one for each petition of some politician willing to win the votes of their corresponding electoral circumcisions and aided by the coffee for all typical of the Spanish governments all they are included. Europe but neutral and alone logic chose one the logical one the one that embraces more Mediterranean ports and that of easier connection with the corresponding French corridor. 

In any event, she remembered that "the key" is not in the planning, but "where you invest" and "and if they ask me what the first one will be, I will tell them that the first thing at this time is what is planned and in march, as for example that we are able to have wide UIC in the whole Mediterranean" corridor. This fact, according to the minister, doesn't mean that I Foment she doesn't have very present that "Spain is all, and she has a very important part that is the central part of our country, and that for that reason I would not leave the Ministry well if it didn't plan for 2030 or 2050 that there will be a Central corridor ". I "Believe that they will share it all you with me", it sentenced. Of pain it is very lamentable to see declarations of this type how many things she won't be necessary to make in infrastructures in the center of Spain that Spain that is of all that are necessary and don't interfere the logic of an industry of the strategic importance of the international logistics.