Castellón hosted the Valencia Community’s Company Day celebrations this Friday. Salvador Navarro, president of the Valencian Community Business Confederation (CEV), understanding between social partners and public authorities Ximo Puig, president of Consell, to promote social welfare Regional leadership in the management of European fundswith 22,600 grants to companies.
In his speech, the CEV president thanked the institutionalization of the Company Day because, as he assured, “It is a fair recognition of the thousands of men and women who demonstrate their professional, personal and social commitment by raising their business projects every day., creating economic activity and creating employment. People, many of whom are not publicly known, but who are indispensable to the development and growth of our Community”.
Likewise, the President of the Confederation underlined the March 3 elections in order to carry out these celebrations due to its symbolic nature for the organization. “This is the day when the CEV, where companies from all sectors and regions are represented, becomes autonomous.Navarro sets an example in front of more than 200 participants that regional restructuring is not only advisable but possible.”
Salvador Navarro He praised the 375,000 companies headquartered in the Community, the 360,000 self-employed.and all the people who make it up because they work in companies, run them, or simply defend them. “Today’s recognition day is for all these people,” he assured.
no two sides
Calling for certainty and non-polarization from politics, Navarro said:we must not take the side of employers or workers; it is not necessary to confront the public sector with the private sector; because we are not two sides. The economic and social progress of the last 45 years would have been unthinkable without responsible public policies, companies, businesses, as well as trade unions”.
Likewise, he highlighted the main contributions of the Valencian Community’s productive sectors, emphasizing that it values the creation of around two million jobs “increasingly qualified and rewarding as our companies become increasingly innovative, sustainable and responsible”.
Finally, he closed his speech by calling for unity, dialogue, understanding between social partners and cooperation with public forces so that “companies” are more competitive, thereby providing more employment and better wages, promoting social welfare and enabling good public services. for all”.
Generalitat President Ximo Puig asserted that the Valencian Community is leading the management of European funds in Spain and that Valencia companies have already received 22,600 aid. Puig was accompanied by Arcadi, the Spanish Minister of Finance and Economic Model; Rafa Climent, Minister for the Sustainable Economy, Productive Sector, Trade and Labor, and Josefina Bueno, Minister for Innovation, Universities, Science and Digital Society.
25% of funds
emphasized in his speech. 25% of the funds tendered by the autonomous communities are concentrated in the Valencian Community.reported that the average amount of aid given to companies is 20,000 Euros.
President announced Company Day seeks to value 375,000 companies and 360,000 self-employed in the Valencia Communitywhich he describes as a “great engine in the shadows” that attracts foreign investment and leads to the current employment record. In this sense, it has created 400,000 jobs in the last eight years, that is, 143 jobs per day.
Puig, the company’s “catalyst of modernity, Europeanness, freedom, progress and prosperity for familiesHe underlined his contribution to reaching the current record in employment, exports and foreign investment.
Moreover, He underlined the management conducted by the Generalitat to promote social dialogue, public-private cooperation and to appreciate and thank the work of businessmen and women.as well as the Valencian Business Confederation, to which it has “maximum public support”.
On the other hand, the Consell president justified the selection of Castellón as the place to celebrate this day for “regional cohesion” and, as he put it, the province with the highest industrial GDP in Spain.
At the event, he also mentioned the current difficulties that energy costs pose for the business fabric, especially for the ceramics industry, and repeated it. The Spanish Government’s need to streamline state aid to tile companies.
Finally, by saying “there is always a company behind the best news”, for example, “BP will create 5 thousand, Volkswagen 30 thousand, Ford will protect 25 thousand, hundreds of jobs in Valencia Community-based companies, the dynamism of the tourism sector and growth of the agri-food sector”.