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Carlos Mazón highlights the support of the Council so that the gastronomic offer of the Valencian Community continues to be a benchmark in quality, innovation and wealth creation

 

The president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, has offered the support of the Council so that the gastronomic offer of the Valencian Community continues to be a benchmark in terms of quality, innovation and generation of economic activity.

 

The head of the Council attended the opening of the Alacant Gastronòmica culinary contest, an international reference in the sector, which takes place until next Monday at the Alacantina Fair Institution and where more than a hundred Michelin stars and Repsol alone are cited.

 

Carlos Mazón has emphasized that it is an "honour" to visit as president a competition that he promoted and supported, from his previous responsibilities at the head of the Provincial Council of Alicante, and has defined Alicante Gastronomica as "the best embassy" and the "best presentation letter" of the prestige of the gastronomy of the Valencian Community. 

 

Alacant Gastronòmica has managed to consolidate itself as a "world showcase" of the "good work" of hospitality, catering and the tourism sector in general, pointed out the president, who has committed to "continue breathing air into a sector that a lot has gone wrong, which has shown the ability to get back on its feet from quality, from innovation, from resilience and from the spirit of offering the world things, which are many and good , which we are able to do here".

 

Mazón indicated that, thanks to the collaboration between the Chamber of Commerce, the Provincial Council and all the organizers, the culinary event has managed to consolidate itself as a "springboard", a "world showcase" of gastronomy, which has made it possible , at the same time, "break a spear - he said - for our restaurants, our producers, our winemakers, our wineries and our product". 

 

"This means gross domestic product, this means help to the hospitality industry and the tourism sector in general and this means income, economic activity and, therefore, more and better possibilities for social cohesion", said the top official of the Valencian Government. 2023 edition 

 

With the slogan 'Mediterranean soul', the 2023 edition of this event welcomes more than 250 exhibitors in 36,000 square meters of space, two tasting and pairing rooms, 180 presentations and workshops, and 15 professional competitions.

 

The Generalitat, through Turisme Comunitat Valenciana, participates in this edition with its own stand of 255 square meters in which, under the umbrella brand 'L'Exquisit Mediterrani-Comunitat Valenciana', it accommodates companies, professionals and destinations for to the joint promotion of the tourist and gastronomic offer of the Valencian Community.

 

 

Carlos Mazón has made a tour of different exhibitors and, among other activities, he has visited the El Millor de la Gastronomia space, with chef Susi Díaz, and witnessed a cooking show at the Assaboreix Costa Blanca stand.

 

Turisme launches a digital campaign to promote the Valencian Community this Autumn

 

 

The Generalitat, through Turisme, is launching a new digital campaign to promote the Valencian Community this autumn under the motto 'The destination of your getaway', and thus take advantage of the opportunities offered by the upcoming festive long weekends to encourage the arrival of visitors. 

 

The Minister of Innovation, Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Nuria Montes, has indicated that “the objective is to boost regional and national tourism in the low season, but with ideal temperatures to get to know the Valencian Community”; a destination that, according to Montes, “is capable of attracting differentiated audiences in search of varied experiences, becoming the place where everything happens, in a setting for active enjoyment.”

 

The head of Turisme stressed that "through this campaign, we are going to deploy all our reach potential in digital media to show the wide range of plans, activities and landscapes for the long weekends and holidays of October, November and December." “Our purpose is to reach, or even surpass, the national visits of last fall,” added Montes.

 

It should be noted that in the last quarter of 2022, the Valencian Community received more than 2.8 million national tourists, mostly from the Community itself (1.5 million), followed by Madrid (318,000), Catalonia (236,000) and Murcia (169,000).

 

This promotion on digital media has a strategy focused on both the municipalities of Castellón, València and Alicante, as well as on the variety of  experiences  and plans included in the  agenda  of its web portal. Furthermore, this agenda will be worked on with special emphasis on these periods.

 

A campaign with the focus on the structuring of the territory

To implement this strategy, a series of resources will be established at a visual level throughout the digital ecosystem that will respect the structure of the territory, with the presence of the three provinces and the inland and coastal areas.

 

Taking this balance, three contents will be prepared for the portal that provide inspiration and many plans and activities for each of the three bridges, which will be shared in the 'Here and now' section through the corresponding banners. Meanwhile,  in the video blog 'Mediterranean in Action' , new content will be proposed with varied proposals such as visits to museums, typical gastronomy, routes and natural sites.

 

On  social networks  , itineraries, destinations, experiences, typical recipes... All of this with the necessary frequency to achieve a wide reach and accompanied by the hashtag #ElDestinoDeTuEscapada. A reminder will also be included to download  the  Kiosco Comunitat Valenciana app , in order to help plan these getaways.

 

Likewise, newsletters will be prepared  , one per bridge, for the national and regional markets, in addition to various actions on travel social networks and digital advertising. With all of this, the aim is to encourage mobility between provinces and visits from other regions of the country by really varied traveler profiles.

he exhibition 'The Science of Pixar' can be visited at the Science Museum from October 6. 'The science of Pixar' is an exhibition designed to offer visitors a unique look at what happens behind the screen and to discover the process used in the creation of Pixar films. 

 

Visitors will begin their immersion with a video that recounts the process Pixar uses to turn an idea into a film, and then they can approach the exhibit and visit, in the order of their choice, the eight sections that they recount Pixar's production process. The interactive exhibit showcases the computer science, math and science concepts used by the artists and computer scientists who help bring Pixar's award-winning films to the big screen.

The exhibition 'The Science of Pixar' arrives at the City of Arts and Sciences on October 6

 

The exhibition 'The Science of Pixar' can be visited at the Science Museum from October 6. 'The science of Pixar' is an exhibition designed to offer visitors a unique look at what happens behind the screen and to discover the process used in the creation of Pixar films. 

Visitors will begin their immersion with a video that recounts the process Pixar uses to turn an idea into a film, and then they can approach the exhibit and visit, in the order of their choice, the eight sections that they recount Pixar's production process. The interactive exhibit showcases the computer science, math and science concepts used by the artists and computer scientists who help bring Pixar's award-winning films to the big screen.
 
The exhibition, created by the Boston Museum of Science in collaboration with Pixar Animation Studios, is divided into eight areas, corresponding to the steps in the process used by Pixar to turn an idea into a film: modeling, rigging, surfaces, stages and cameras, animation, simulation, lighting and rendering.
 
Audiences will be able to learn, through videos and interviews with the workers, real examples of the technical challenges behind some of their favorite Pixar films, from 'Toy Story' to 'Coco' for 'WALL·E', 'Monstres, SA' or 'Finding Nemo', among many others.
 
Visitors of all ages will participate and learn about the filmmaking process through activities inspired by some of Pixar's most acclaimed films, from the first computer-animated feature film 'Toy Story', which premiered more than two decades ago, until 'Luca', released in the summer of 2021.
 
The exhibition, which can be seen until March 2024 in the City of Arts and Sciences, brings together dozens of elements designed so that visitors can physically and virtually experience the techniques used by this cinematographic studio in its day in day. Thus, they will be able to discover first-hand how the lighting of a scene or the point of view of the camera can influence our emotions.
 
'The science of Pixar' has been developed by the Boston Museum of Science in collaboration with Pixar Animation Studios. © Disney/Pixar. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

9 out of 10 taxpayers in the Valencian Community will benefit from the Council's new tax relief measures

 

 

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The President of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, and the Minister of Finance, Economy and Public Administration, Ruth Merino, have presented the new fiscal measures that will be provided for in the Fiscal Measures Law, which accompanies the Budgets of the Generalitat for 2024 , and which will represent an estimated saving of more than 199 million euros for Valencians.

 

As Carlos Mazón highlighted in a press conference, this is a package of fiscal measures with which the Council "adapts taxation to the needs of the citizens" and from which a maximum of 2 million Valencians will be able to benefit. This fulfills the commitment made by the Council in matters of social cohesion, support for families and public health.

 

With this reform, which is proposed with retroactive effect in the case of the measures in the personal income tax so that the savings occur already in the 2023 income declaration, Valencians will save more than 199 million euros, 180 millions of which correspond to deductions in the personal income tax. The measure applies to declarations with an individual liquidable base of a maximum of 32,000 euros, and a joint maximum of 48,000 euros.

 

Social deductions in the personal income tax

The head of the Council has announced six new deductions of a social nature related to health and sports practice "aimed at the people who need it most", with the aim of "alleviating low incomes and reactivating the economy". Measures that will result in an estimated total savings of 180,205,525 euros for the citizens of the Valencian Community who can benefit from them.

 

Included in the package of measures are deductions of up to 150 euros, for 30% of the amounts paid for expenses related to oral health, and deductions of up to 100 euros for 30% of expenses for the purchase of prescription glasses , contact lenses and cleaning solutions.

 

Likewise, deductions of up to 150 euros are collected for 30% of the expenses generated by members of the family unit who need help to suffer from any pathology similar to mental health problems. It also includes a deduction of a maximum of 100 euros for expenses associated with chronic diseases of high complexity or those known as rare, as well as a diagnosis of acquired brain damage or Alzheimer's. The limit of this deduction rises to 150 euros if the family unit is large or single-parent.

In addition, deductions of 150 euros are included for a maximum of 30% of the expenses associated with sports practice.

 

Super-reduced rates for the acquisition of homes

A second block of tax reductions is related to the purchase of regular housing by vulnerable groups, such as young people under 35, large and single-parent families, people with disabilities, women subject to gender-based violence or families with low resources that access sheltered housing.

 

This measure consists of reducing to 6% the rate of burdensome property transfers of the Property Transfer Tax (ITP) and Documented Legal Acts (AJD) for the purchase of a regular home by young people under 35 years of age and also by to buyers of protected homes under the general regime, in both cases with a home value of 180,000 euros at most.

 

For the acquisition of special regime protected housing or if the buyers are large families and single-parent families, or people with disabilities and women subject to gender violence who acquire a home, the super-reduced rate becomes 3%. Also in these cases the limit of the value of the house is fixed at 180,000 euros.

 

Savings of almost 20 million in housing

These rate reductions foreseen in the taxes levied on the transfer of a home will mean a saving of almost 20 million euros for young people under 35 years of age and the other vulnerable groups benefited by this Council measure.

 

With regard to the deductions in the personal income tax of the expenses related to oral, visual or mental health, the measure is focused on the part of the population that currently does not have access to them for economic reasons, since they are benefits with a low coverage within the portfolio of common services of the National Health System.

 

This, according to the Council's opinion, made it "essential" to enable several formulas, including the tax, "so that health is an effective right within the reach of all citizens".

Finally, the president of the Generalitat emphasized that "this is the change that the citizens of the Valencian Community deserve, to which I committed myself and with which I will continue to advance".

 

 

Carlos Mazón affirms that a "new stage" of "major investments" will be opened to affirm public transport in the province of Alicante "at the forefront"

 

The President of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, has received a representation from the Spanish Women's Football Team, to which he has thanked for having become a "reference" for all the girls to whom the likes this sport and in "upheaval" because institutional support for women's sport is intensified.

The president has underlined the importance of the girls having in these athletes a "mirror in which to look". "That image, those values ​​and that determination that they have seen, will help them in the future to make a decision themselves", he indicated.

 

Carlos Mazón made these statements during the reception he offered to a representation of players from the Spanish Women's Football Team, composed of Ivana Andrés, Enith Salón and Alba Redondo, who brought the World Cup to the Palau de la Generalitat Women's Football 2023. The event was also attended by the first vice-president and Minister of Culture and Sport, Vicente Barrera.

 

Ivana Andrés, captain of the National Team, is from Aielo de Malferit and plays for Real Madrid. For her part, Enith Salón is the goalkeeper of the National Team, plays for Valencia CF and is originally from Moncada. Finally, Alba Redondo, forward in the National Team, also plays in Levante UD and is from Albacete.

 

To all of them, as well as to the rest of the team, Carlos Mazón congratulated them on the recent victory in the World Cup held in Sydney and expressed his "pride and gratitude".

"We will enjoy the Cup, but we will also take it as a lesson to the public administrations because they continue to promote sport even more, with more facilities, more media and more support for the youth", said the president.

 

Sports values

During his speech, Carlos Mazón also highlighted the values ​​that sport represents, which helps to "have awareness, to know how to lose and win and to compete cleanly".

In addition, he highlighted the determination of "great women" who have made women's sport, in general, and football, in particular, "break ceilings and borders".

Carlos Mazón has also praised the obstinacy of Vice President Vicente Barrera who "has not stopped until he gets this trophy displayed in Valencia", and he has stressed that "it has been the Valencian Community, first in the City Council and then in the Generalitat, one of the first places to host the trophy".

 

Carlos Mazón highlighted the fact that the captain of the National Team, Ivana Andrés, was born in Aielo de Malferit and that she won the Cup in the exact same year as the singer Nino Bravo's 50th birthday.

 

Carlos Mazón emphasises that the Spanish Football Team has become a "reference" and "revolutionary" for institutional support for women's sports

 

The President of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, has received a representation from the Spanish Women's Football Team, to which he has thanked for having become a "reference" for all the girls to whom the likes this sport and in "upheaval" because institutional support for women's sport is intensified.

The president has underlined the importance of the girls having in these athletes a "mirror in which to look". "That image, those values ​​and that determination that they have seen, will help them in the future to make a decision themselves", he indicated.

 

Carlos Mazón made these statements during the reception he offered to a representation of players from the Spanish Women's Football Team, composed of Ivana Andrés, Enith Salón and Alba Redondo, who brought the World Cup to the Palau de la Generalitat Women's Football 2023. The event was also attended by the first vice-president and Minister of Culture and Sport, Vicente Barrera.

 

Ivana Andrés, captain of the National Team, is from Aielo de Malferit and plays for Real Madrid. For her part, Enith Salón is the goalkeeper of the National Team, plays for Valencia CF and is originally from Moncada. Finally, Alba Redondo, forward in the National Team, also plays in Levante UD and is from Albacete.

 

To all of them, as well as to the rest of the team, Carlos Mazón congratulated them on the recent victory in the World Cup held in Sydney and expressed his "pride and gratitude".

"We will enjoy the Cup, but we will also take it as a lesson to the public administrations because they continue to promote sport even more, with more facilities, more media and more support for the youth", said the president.

 

Sports values

During his speech, Carlos Mazón also highlighted the values ​​that sport represents, which helps to "have awareness, to know how to lose and win and to compete cleanly".

In addition, he highlighted the determination of "great women" who have made women's sport, in general, and football, in particular, "break ceilings and borders".

Carlos Mazón has also praised the obstinacy of Vice President Vicente Barrera who "has not stopped until he gets this trophy displayed in Valencia", and he has stressed that "it has been the Valencian Community, first in the City Council and then in the Generalitat, one of the first places to host the trophy".

 

Carlos Mazón highlighted the fact that the captain of the National Team, Ivana Andrés, was born in Aielo de Malferit and that she won the Cup in the exact same year as the singer Nino Bravo's 50th birthday.

 

The Generalitat offers the Government of Spain immediate emergency humanitarian assistance and coordinates efforts to help the population of Morocco

 

The Generalitat is prepared to offer Morocco immediate emergency humanitarian assistance and coordinates, from early Saturday morning, efforts in its field of action to help the Moroccan population affected by the devastating earthquake that has affected the Marrakech-Safi region. and that has already caused more than 2,012 people to die and more than 360,662 to be affected.

 

This was explained by the second vice president and Minister of Social Services, Equality and Housing, Susana Camarero, after the meeting she held with the Minister of Justice and the Interior, Elisa Núñez, and the teams from both ministries in charge of coordinating actions in matters of humanitarian aid.

 

Susana Camarero explained that since early Saturday morning, permanent coordination has been maintained with the entities with which the Generalitat has collaboration agreements "in order to respond to an emergency humanitarian crisis situation" and, this morning, it has already taken place. a first meeting with representatives of Farmamundi, the Red Cross and the NGO Intervention, Aid and Emergencies to outline the lines of action to be implemented “so that humanitarian aid reaches the Moroccan people sooner.”

 

The second vice president also explained that, after learning yesterday, through the media, of the official request for humanitarian aid made by Morocco to the Government of Spain, the Generalitat "reiterated to the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) all the human and material resources that are necessary” and is waiting for the Executive to convene the autonomous communities that form the decentralized cooperation.

 

Likewise, Camarero has indicated that in the next few hours the Permanent Committee for Humanitarian Action of the Valencian Community (CAHE) will be convened, which is responsible for the coordination of public institutions and private entities of the Valencian Community that allocate funds to humanitarian action. with the aim of concentrating resources and channeling aid from the entities that comprise it (Generalitat, Provincial Councils, local entities, savings banks and NGOs).

 

For her part, the Minister of Justice and Interior, Elisa Núñez, has stated that "the regional Emergency services have been ready since early Saturday morning to provide the help that the Government of Spain requests, as it is the one who must do so." The councilor recalled that these teams “have to act in a coordinated manner, within the framework of consolidated international mechanisms and in accordance with existing protocols. This is the only way for aid to be effective and resources to reach the people who need them.”

 

The meetings held this Monday were also attended by the regional secretary of Family and Social Services, Ignacio Grande, the regional secretary of Security and Emergencies, Javier Montero, the general director of Inclusion and Development Cooperation, Pedro Carceller, and the general director of the Interior. , Arturo Alepuz, and the deputy director general of the Valencian Agency for Security and Emergency Response, Jorge Suárez.

 

 

Aguirre addresses the commercial projection of its wines with the DO Alicante

 

 

The Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, José Luis Aguirre, has met with the president of the Regulatory Council of the Alicante Protected Designation of Origin, José Juan Reus, with whom he has analyzed the situation of Alicante wine and its commercial projection.

 

The possibility of working on the recovery of old grape varieties, and wine-specific R&D&I projects, has also been addressed.

 

During the meeting, which was also attended by the general director of Agricultural and Livestock Production, Leticia Sanchiz, José Luis Aguirre offered the DO Alicante dialogue and institutional collaboration to promote, among consumers, the dissemination of the values ​​of wine certified.rians, beekeepers, cattle breeders, farmers to ask for their cooperation and who know how to act in the presence of wasps and their nests.

 

The Generalitat immediately launches an action protocol for the detection of the Vespa Velutina wasp

 

 

The Generalitat informs of the implementation, before the detection of the wasp Vespa velutina, of an emergency action protocol for its control and eradication, as well as of a series of surveillance tasks to prevent the expansion and curb the serious risk it poses to the beekeeping sector this species is included in the National Catalog of Invasive Exotic Species.

 

This is the first case confirmed in the Valencian Community of this species, after the identification of an example in the town of Vallibona in the province of Castellón, and which has alerted the Valencian beekeeping sector, affected in recent years by imports masses from third countries, the drought and the lack of support from the previous administrations.

 

From the general directorates of Natural and Animal Environment and Agricultural and Livestock Production, corresponding to the Ministries of Environment and Agriculture, respectively, an emergency action protocol has been drawn up jointly for the protection of beekeeping and agriculture the Valencian Community.

 

The protocol establishes guiding criteria for the control and, if possible, the eradication of the population of Vespa velutina and of the species, as well as the impact in areas where it has been established, with effective and efficient measures, and to minimize at the same time the effect on the rest of the species.

 

Training will also be given in the region regarding the Vespa velutina to municipal staff, forestry agents, veterinarians, beekeepers, cattle breeders, farmers to ask for their cooperation and who know how to act in the presence of wasps and their nests.

 

Carlos Mazón urges the central government to approve the Júcar-Vinalopó agreement to give “stability and security” to the Alicante countryside

 

 

The president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, has urged the central government to “urgently” approve the agreement that must regulate the Júcar-Vinalopó transfer “to give stability and security to the Alicante countryside.”

 

“We want an agreement that finally gives projection to the field and not just annual patches or for a specific time. The day-to-day life of the world of agriculture is already hard enough, without us also giving it the tranquility it deserves,” the president pointed out.

 

Carlos Mazón explained that work has been done on the content of the agreement, which will regulate the transfer of water to the Vinalopó region for the next 10 years, to achieve an agreement "with everyone's efforts", and he regretted that "the Council of Ministers continues to wait so long to approve it.”

 

The president of the Generalitat made these statements in Aspe where he attended the cutting of the first bunch of 'Vinalopó Embolsada Table Grape', as well as the presentation of the campaign for the 2023-2024 season of this Protected Designation of Origin.

 

“The water debt”

During the event, the head of the Consell pointed out that "water is essential, not only from the point of view of Júcar-Vinalopó, but also from the Tajo-Segura." “From the Consell we are going to fight on water issues, but this time with unity, not with low words; this time without fear of denouncing the permanent grievance that the attitude of Pedro Sánchez's

 

Government is causing for the province of Alicante," said the head of the Consell.

 

Carlos Mazón has criticized “the disaster, the neglect and the water debt that Pedro Sánchez has with the province of Alicante”, and has recalled that “the Tajo-Segura transfer has been cut more than 25 times”.

 

“In addition to the historical debt, the debt of underfinancing and the debt due to lack of investment, the Government of Pedro Sánchez has created the water debt with the province of Alicante and the Valencian Community,” lamented the president.

 

Agricultural insurance and Technical Board

Carlos Mazón has also announced that aid related to agricultural insurance will be reinforced, “which is costing farmers so much,” and that a Technical Working Group will be created “to address the specific needs of grape cultivation.” ", and has reiterated "the Consell's commitment to the agricultural world."

 

Likewise, he highlighted that the elimination of the Inheritance and Donation Tax, which the plenary session of the Consell approved this Tuesday, "will facilitate the generational change in the Valencian countryside."

 

“This measure was a moral issue, a commitment of government and personnel in the face of injustice. That is why we are going to process it urgently, because it cannot be postponed to put an end to the moral embarrassment to which we have been subjected for too many years," said Carlos Mazón.

 

Appellations of origin

During the event, the president of the Generalitat was able to see first-hand the harvesting of the grapes, specifically, that of the Victoria and Ideal varieties, of which he highlighted their great quality and exceptional organoleptic characteristics. Carlos Mazón has highlighted the role that the Vinalopó Embolsada Table Grape Protected Designation of Origin plays

 

“in maintaining a centuries-old tradition, a special production system with exceptional quality, increasingly valued by the consumer and that From the Generalitat we want to help promote.”

 

The president has pointed out that "all of this constitutes a hallmark that transmits the name of the province of Alicante and the Valencian Community throughout half the world."

 

Likewise, he has indicated that the table grape "is one of the most loved products by all of us, but we are aware that it has challenges and complications and we are not going to fail them, we cannot fail them."

 

The event was also attended by the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, José Luis Aguirre; the mayor of Aspe, Antonio Puerto; the president of the Alicante Provincial Council, Toni Pérez; and the president of the Regulatory Council for the Protected Designation of Origin of Vinalopó Bagged Table Grapes (CRDOP), José Bernabeu.

 

 

Statements by the President of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón

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