García-Page valora la cifra “récord” de exportaciones de la región en 2024, rozando los 10.700 millones de euros en ventas exteriores
Escariche (Guadalajara), 17 de febrero de 2025.– El presidente regional, Emiliano García-Page, ha valorado la cifra “récord” de exportaciones que ha experimentado la región durante el pasado año, rozando los 10.700 millones de euros en ventas exteriores, un 7,7 por ciento por encima del registro del año anterior y batiendo también las cifras de 2022, que hasta ahora eran el récord en exportaciones castellanomanchegas.
“Estamos por encima de la tasa nacional en industria, tenemos casi 2,5 puntos más de industria en el peso económico que en el resto de España, pero el dato de exportaciones no es aislado”, ha asegurado García-Page, antes de enumerar otras cifras récord que ha batido la región como “creación de empleo, llegada de empresas, inversión extranjera, reducción de la tasa de paro y crecimiento de población”, se ha felicitado.
Así lo ha señalado durante la inauguración de la reapertura de la sección de Escariche (Guadalajara) del Colegio Rural Agrupado ‘Duques de Pastrana’, un centro educativo al que acuden a diario cinco niños y niñas, dotado con un patio, dos aulas y una sala para material escolar.
During his speech, García-Page highlighted that “gratitude and vocation” are values that should prevail in the development of educational activity and also in politics. “Gratitude should be the leitmotif, but one must work to deserve it,” and without vocation “it is difficult to make sacrifices in life,” the regional president considered.
A major pact in Europe
This center, closed by the previous regional government, reopened at the beginning of this school year after its facilities were refurbished, and for García-Page, today’s event marks a very important milestone within a week of intense activity where, for example, he will meet in Brussels with the Executive Vice President for a Clean, Just, and Competitive Transition of the European Commission, Teresa Ribera, or preside over a new meeting of the Government Council where the renewal of transportation subsidies for young people with a 50 percent reduction in ticket prices will be approved.
Regarding Europe, García-Page pointed out that at the meeting he will attend in the Belgian capital “there is a major pact between the PP and the European PSOE to choose the Committee of the Regions. There, the regions will set an example, because our direction in Europe is being agreed upon without counting on the extremes and is being agreed upon between the major and more moderate parties,” a procedure that he hopes will be extended “because the level of political tension is incredible.”
Past cuts that will not be repeated
In relation to this approach, the head of the Castilla-La Mancha government asked, “what do we do with the money that a society generates,” and cited as an example what is being done in the region to improve healthcare, such as the new linear accelerator for oncological treatments that the Guadalajara Hospital will have starting next May, as announced.
A technology “that is worth more than all the savings made by the previous regional government in closing 70 centers,” García-Page criticized, referring to the CRAs that were closed by the Cospedal government. “If we grow, it must be to share wealth, in education, healthcare, and dependency,” he considered, before recalling that “we are the only region in Spain that has universalized” early intervention services.
“That is what is good for families, but it is also a huge saving, the sooner you detect a problem, the sooner you solve it and the less it costs,” he justified.
Accompanied by the Minister of Education, Culture, and Sports, Amador Pastor, and the President of the regional Cortes, Pablo Bellido, among other authorities, García-Page criticized that in the past “all cuts were justified and nothing was saved.” In his opinion, they started from a “mistake” blaming the origin of the 2007 crisis on those who did not have it, “and the cuts began, many for pleasure.”
Thus, he recalled that “closing the 70 centers meant eight million euros. Eight million for any of us is obviously money, but in the context of what we are talking about, I assure you that it is peanuts,” lamented the president, who added that “solely because of the cuts, so many complaints were filed against the regional government that we have paid tens of millions just to compensate for all the cuts.”
In this sense, García-Page recalled that from his government “we have opened all the rural units proposed by the educational communities. And it may cost money, yes, but I am very pleased to see 1,600 teachers working, living, building families, and educating in proximity,” he concluded.