The GALP Costa Brava, the local action group that supports fishing communities along the coast, has celebrated its tenth anniversary. The organisation has handed out more than €3.5 million in grants to local projects since it was founded in 2016.
The anniversary was marked with a commemorative event at the Espai Medes. It brought together institutional representatives, local stakeholders, maritime and fishing professionals, and entrepreneurs with links to the Costa Brava.
Organisers used the occasion to review a decade of work. They also looked ahead to the projects, people and opportunities expected to shape the coming years.
The Catalan government will spend €16.2 million on the first phase of a new rail freight station in Vilamalla. The project is part of a wider plan to move more of Catalonia's goods off the roads and onto trains.
The announcement came in a busy week for rail freight in the Alt Empordà. Days earlier, a Figueres-based advisory body called for faster progress on two major rail projects in the county.
Four new freight stations by 2031
Sílvia Paneque, the Catalan minister for Territory, Housing and Ecological Transition, presented the plan after Tuesday's meeting of the Executive Council, the weekly cabinet meeting of the Generalitat (the Catalan government).
The Mossos d'Esquadra, Catalonia's regional police force, arrested the owner of a travel agency in L'Escala on Wednesday. She is under investigation for fraud, and police believe the scheme is worth more than €2 million.
Officers say close to 400 people were affected. Some paid for holidays that never existed. Others learned partway through their trip that their stay had not been fully paid for and that they still owed money.
Jordi Casanovas is a deputy inspector and head of the central economic crime area of the Mossos' criminal investigation division. He said the woman had no civil liability insurance and used the money she took from customers to pay off debts.
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