On Tuesday, June 24, the President of the Balearic Islands, Marga Prohens, announced a plan to commit €3.8 billion to the infrastructure of the islands. This includes improvements in education, healthcare, water management and treatment, housing, mobility, security, social care, and tourism.
The plan was announced as a part of the “Islands in Transformation” plan, which according to the President, was over twenty years in the making. “We have found a lot of our infrastructure to be in poor conditions, that don’t respond to the level of quality our citizens deserve” said Prohens. “Because of this, we want to map out a real route for the transformation of these islands, with an investment that hasn’t been made in 20 years in this community.”
Breaking it down even further, the plan aims to invest €600 million in the educational sector, €600 million into the sanitary sector, €150 million for mobility, including a separate €1.4 billion plan to improve upon existing trains, and over €280 million for the betterment of the tourism sector with the hopes of making it more sustainable, among other investments.
“We are a community with a growth of population that doesn’t exist in any other region in Spain,” said Prohens. “Because of this, we need to invest in the containment of touristic policy, but also in the infrastructure. After waiting for twenty years, now we will have transformed islands.”