The Valencian Community Business Confederation (CEV) today requested from José Manuel Albares, Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, to find a solution to the conflict by expanding the Spanish Government’s bilateral trade diplomacy deployment with Algeria. political origin Affects 1,400 companies in the community. This was expressed by the head of the CEV, Salvador Navarro, at a meeting held today in Alicante at a forum where he regrets the diplomatic crisis between the two countries.serious economic repercussions” and ensured that “this autonomy affects their companies more than the rest of the productive fabric of the country”. In this sense, Salvador Navarro has affected the complete paralysis that the frit and glaze industry, Algeria’s main export sector, has been experiencing since July.
Therefore, from the CEV, through the Government’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Urgently intensify the defense of the commercial interests of the Spanish producer fabric on the European agendaThrough both Spain’s Permanent Representation in the European Union (REPER) and the Council of Europe, “so that the interests of the Spanish productive fabric and the Community are not diluted in defense of the energy interests of the Union as a whole”.
Besides CEV president, CEV Alicante president Joaquín Pérez; Esther Guilabert, general secretary of the CEV; and Alicante Chamber representatives, ANFFECC, ASEBEC, HOSBEC, FOPA, AEFJ, ASAJA, FEDACOVA, VECTALIA, Grupo IDEX and Carmencita.
Representatives of different sectors condemned the problems caused by the blockade situation of the companies and Algeria’s refusal to issue its authorizations and certificates necessary to import products; barriers at customs; as well as the high costs incurred by containers blocked at ports and customs.
Therefore, as they warned the head of the ministry, this gives a competitive advantage to other rival countries such as Italy, France and Portugal, which are capturing the lost market share of companies in the Valencian Community.
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On the other hand, the head of CEV Alicante, Joaquín Pérez, took advantage of this meeting to convey his dissatisfaction with the investments of the province’s business circles and civil society in the province of Alicante, which is being considered in the State’s Chief of Staff project. 2023 Budgets. In this sense, Joaquín Pérez influenced. 15 years of serious discrimination faced by the state and explained to the minister the action plan adopted by the CEV, Alicante Chamber of Commerce and Alicante State Institute of Economic Research (INECA) to reverse the situation.