MEP UI Paloma López has submitted a set of questions to the European Commission on the subsidy granted to the company Premursa Theme-Park for their investment in a Paramount theme park in Murcia multinational.
Lopez has asked the Community institution to explain the reasons why it considers that the park can promote the development and use of the Region of Murcia, being a "hugely controversial" project whose viability "is far from proven."
In this regard, he recalled that the theme parks in Spain "accumulate serious profitability problems" and they "have had to be, at some point, public subsidies," which in the case of Alhama is 16.23 million of EUR to EU bodies.
In addition, the MEP has also questioned the project because "intends built in Carrascoy Regional Park El Valle," which, he adds, "contravenes the law."
To this he has added that the promoter of the initiative is a known Murcia businessman "the brick industry," referring to Jesus Samper, who has "a long legal history and unfinished projects."
Lopez asked, Also here, why the EU has approved a grant of public funds to the project "as their environmental, social and legal implications are known."
Source: IURM