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The Region Of Murcia And The European Union

 

 

 

Today, the European Union is in a scenario in which it has to face a large number of challenges, from globalization or the impact of new technologies on society and employment, to security problems and the boom in populism, the Brexit, the new financial framework 2021-2027.

These years have meant an undoubted growth and development for the Region of Murcia, which all citizens have been able to perceive and which have their basis in a relevant way, without any doubt, in the European Cohesion Policy, the main instrument of regional solidarity of that the EU has.

Local and regional authorities play a fundamental role in making visible and strengthening the European identity; so that citizens understand what it means to "be European", the common values ​​and principles that we share, the advantages and opportunities of our Union membership.
For this, from the Region of Murcia, all the means at our disposal are used: those offered by the Treaty, through the Committee of the Regions also going to the national ministries to translate our voice to the Council, and to the MEPs of our territories to complete and reinforce our action before the European Parliament.

But also from the Region the participation of an informed citizenship and in the construction of the European Union is encouraged. 

Government of the Region of Murcia has a General Directorate of the European Union and other specialized units, like Europe Direct Center, Operum or Info , who works on European Programmes and helps searching partners.

Know The Region Of Murcia


The Region of Murcia is a uniprovincial autonomous community, located in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula, and which borders Andalusia, the Valencian Community, Castilla La Mancha and the Mediterranean Sea. Its capital is the city of Murcia, which is the seat of the regional institutional bodies, with the exception of the Regional Assembly, located in Cartagena. The total population of the Region of Murcia is 1,464,847 inhabitants. Just under a third lives in the capital and half is distributed between the municipalities of Murcia, Cartagena and Lorca. It is a relatively small community to be uniprovincial-being the ninth in Spain on the surface and the tenth in population. However, as a province it is one of the most populated of the fifty that the country has, specifically the seventh most populated one. Most of the Region of Murcia has a semi-arid Mediterranean climate. Their winters are mild and hot summers (with maximum of 40 ºC). The average annual temperature is 18 ºC. In its orography alternate mountainous systems, valleys, depressions, plains and littorals, with pluviometric indices and diverse temperatures.
The region is a major producer of fruits and vegetables for the rest of Spain and European Union. Murcia is mainly a warm region wich has made it very suitable for agriculture. Water is supplied by the Segura River and, since the 1970s, by the Tajo transvasement, a major civil engineering project.

 

Several Sectors

The productive sectors in which to support the regional economy, based on a necessary and profound renovation that have gone through an increase in their capitalization, innovation and technology, are the following:

• The agri-food sector, which has a long tradition in the regional productive fabric, with an important market share and, to a large extent, an exporter, must guarantee increases in competitiveness through, among other factors, business concentration, technological and innovative intensification and productive multi-location. 

• Tourism has a lot of potential to develop in the Region, although it is necessary to maintain a balance between the protection of the territory and the development of the sector. In order to consolidate a sustainable and quality tourism sector, different challenges have to be faced and the current deficiencies and imbalances must be corrected, fostering the inclusion of the Region in the major tourist destinations and achieving a broad and continuous tourist services offer, differentiated in the different consolidated destinations. 

• Energy is another sector with a future in the Region. In addition to the Escombreras Valley energy complex, which is also an important source of activity for the Port of Cartagena, the production of energy from renewable sources, mainly solar energy, has optimum conditions in the Region and should be exploited also to promote research activities and technological innovation in this area. 

• On the other hand, the petrochemical industry, which will be reinforced with the construction of the last generation Lubricant Bases Plant, constitutes a sector of great importance in the Region, mainly in the Cartagena area, which also supports other sectors like the agricultural one and that generates to his around other activities, to the time that constitutes an exporting sector. 

• Logistics and transport have to reach an important development using to the maximum the existing infrastructures and those that will be in operation in the near future, in order to take advantage of the transport capacity in the Mediterranean Arc and towards the center of the peninsula, of all kinds of merchandise and transport (refrigerators and generalists, processed food, natural stone, bulk and containers).

The Region's export activity, which accounts for 3.7% of all sales abroad in Spain, has experienced a better evolution in this period than the national average.

 

 

REGIONAL GDP: 28,527
REGIONAL GDP PER CAPITA: 19,865
PERCENTAGE OF THE NATIONAL PER CAPITA GDP: 82.5%
PERCENTAGE OF EU GDP PER CAPITA: 73%
GDP OF THE MEMBER STATE: 1,118,522 million euros
GDP OF THE MEMBER STATE PER CAPITA: 24,080 euros
MAIN ECONOMIC SECTORS: Services 67.2%, Industry 15.6%, Construction 11.9% and Agriculture, livestock and fisheries 5.3%
MAIN PRODUCTS EXPORTED: Food, beverages and tobacco 51.5%, Energy products 20.6%, Chemical products 12.9%, Capital goods 7.3%
EXPORT DESTINATIONS: France 11.5%, Germany 10.3%, United Kingdom 10.3%, Netherlands 8.0%, Italy 7.7%, United States 4.2%, Morocco 3.8%, Portugal 3.8%, Bélgiva 2.8%, Brazil 2.7%.
MAIN IMPORTED PRODUCTS: Energy products 51.6%, Food, beverages and tobacco 19.4%, Chemical products 10.0%, Capital goods 5.7%
ORIGIN OF IMPORTS: Saudi Arabia 11.7%, Mexico 10.0%, Brazil 7.1%, China 5.6%, Libya 4.7%, Colombia 4.6%, Iraq 4.6%, Italy 4 , 3%, Germany 4.0%, United States 3.1%

 

Where are we?

 

 

  • Plaza San Agustín, nº 5 30.005 Murcia, Spain
  • Management Centre Ph.: +34 968 36 65 39
  • Europe Direct Ph.: +34 900 700 006 (Freephone)
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