First Vice President and Minister of Economy, Nadia KalvinoHe defended the “responsible and balanced economic policy” he implemented in Barcelona. State it’s five years and it “works”, as the data show. And he underlined the data that, in his view, reflect the following: good development of the economyLike the above-average Social Security connections growing in new sectors of the digital economy, as he spoke at the last session of the 38th Cercle d’Economia Meeting in Barcelona.
Defending Calviño, the “leadership” of the president Pedro Sanchez at European levelannounced Next week, the Government will approve the appendix to the recovery plan. To be later approved by Brussels, as milestones and targets need to be met to benefit from European funding ‘Next Generation’. With this addition, an additional 10,000 million is added to those in the bailout plan in transfers (previously calculated as 7,000 million) and an additional 84,000 million in soft loans. He said that this document was prepared with the contributions of all sectors and focused on strategic autonomy.
Elections and “vertigo”
He said this after a presentation by Cercle chairman Jaume Guardiola, in which he recalled and warned in the opinion note framing the conferences that ended this Wednesday. stagnant standard of living In terms of Europe, it is criticized that the major parties contribute to polarization instead of consensus. Guardiola showed him causing “dizziness” new election call Doubts about 23 July and the European Presidency for the second term.
Featured Calviño decrease in increase inflationabout 3% and affirmed that “an election is the least dizzying thing anyone can be given”; He acknowledged that a “lost decade” had come after the financial crisis. And this decline was due to the government’s economic policy since 2018, he said, adding that “we are just starting to recover”. According to him, the Executive’s strategy took advantage of growth to reduce the financial cost of the pandemic. And that’s why deficit and debt criteria have been met, they will be met this year as well, and those planned for 2024 will be brought forward,” he said.
Confessed increased tax revenuepartly attributed this to the emergence of the informal economy. He used the collection increase to justify “tax-free increases” and even some discounts. Calviño advocated support measures for citizens and industries and the “social democratic response” of the ‘Next Generation’ funds.
Leading centers and universities
The vice president stressed the importance of these resources for such a strategic community. remembered international leading centersWith a “basic” ecosystem for R&D projects and the development of the PERTE chip. Another great asset is Catalonia’s ecosystem of “fantastic” universities and SMEs and start-ups.
In turn, he stated that in the annex of the improvement plan, which will be approved next week, there will be changes in the digital ‘kit’ for SMEs and self-employed so that it can be used more. He made his defense in front of businessmen and executives attending conferences. keeping policy “responsible and balanced” according to him, Pedro Sánchez’s Manager made it happen. When asked by the audience about the differences in the Government’s economic policy, he considered it a “trick question” as he assured that the main opposition party did not know what its proposal was.
Before the vice-president’s speech, Guardiola stressed that the call for early elections for the 23-J has caused “a little dizziness” for businessmen who are struggling to understand what the European presidency will look like in the second half of the year. A year with important issues for Europe and Spain.
medium and long term
The Cercle president advocated the continuation of his opinion. reflect in the medium and long term despite the election context. In Catalonia, he explained, the municipal campaign was much less tense, and the context was related to government measures supported by Cercle, “despite creating controversy and for some of the public having difficulty understanding the Spanish public”. “.
In any case, he stressed that problems such as the level of financing and investment of the state still remain in Catalonia. and insisted Current growth is positive, but per capita income has risen only slightly since joining the euro, and we have “regressed relative to euro countries”. “It cannot be attributed to any particular government, but it concerns all of us,” he summed up.
In Guardiola’s view, increasing the level of productivity is the challenge. To that end, he insisted on reconciliation, and “the big parties seem to be feeding political polarization.” And all this in the face of risks such as disruption of the generational link, the consequences of rising public debt or indexing pensions to inflation, and a lack of affordable housing and a law with no consensus with the opposition.