The Minister of Finance, Maria Jesus Montero, has hardened his speech against what he calls the “fiscal dumping” of the Community of Madrid. In an intervention in the Congress of Deputies, Montero has accused the regional government of Isabel Diaz Ayuso to unleash “capital flight” in other autonomous communities and to the Popular Party to […]
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Competition rules out opening a file due to the strong increase in electricity in January
The National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC) rules out opening a file to investigate in more depth the sharp rise in the price of electricity registered last January. The supervisor has analyzed during the last weeks the causes behind the increase in the cost of energy and has concluded that it was a “perfect […]
Pablo Casado ironizes with the family photo of the new Government of Pedro Sánchez: “The 22 ministers are like two football teams with different shirts”
Pablo Casado’s agenda has, for four months, at least one weekly appointment in Cataluña. The president of PP He is turning his efforts to ensure that his party can improve, on February 14, the results obtained in the last autonomous elections, when he ran out of his own group in the Parliament going from eleven […]
Bank of Spain inspectors warn: “Mergers may be creating banks that are almost impossible to rescue.”
The disturbing letter to Parliament from the association brings together the bulk of the Inspection. They warn that mistakes from the past are being repeated in the new wave of bank mergers and that the pandemic accentuates “the vulnerability” of the system “Our country has already embarked on a relevant concentration process, so the implementation […]
Podemos asks Ribera to audit the electricity market that the PSOE demanded of Rajoy in 2017
“What we ask for in the first place is an audit of the electrical costs […] so that citizens do not have to pay for the sardine at the price of bream. “January 19, 2017. A cold wave hit Spain and plunged temperatures to 10 degrees below zero in 16 provinces of the country. The […]
Plan A, the “manual” of citizenship for economic recovery
“Dear political class, a feeling of sadness and exhaustion invades us. We will come out of this, there is no doubt. The question is how?” … The answer is called “Plan A, economy for life “, a document prepared by more than 5,000 people and 70 organizations, fed up with the lack of political consensus […]
Conthe, candidate for the Frob, rules out financial exclusion due to mergers: “Offices are closed in highly populated places”
The candidate proposed by the Government to preside over the Frob, Paula Conthe, believes that the new round of mergers announced in the banking sector will not lead to a worrying increase in financial concentration and rules out that it will worsen exclusion in some provinces of the country. “The duplication of offices and closures […]
The Government rejects to lower the VAT of the masks because it would suppose “1,568 million less of collection”
The Government has rejected reducing the VAT on masks from 21% to 4% after calculating that the measure would cause “1,568 million euros of lower revenue per year.” The Executive has also dropped the request to finance PCR tests for the self-employed, SMEs and security forces and bodies, as well as all health services personnel, […]
Calviño takes over from Ponce in the Frob and appoints Paula Conthe as new president
The Government has launched the procedure for the election of a new president of the Fund for Orderly Bank Restructuring (FROB), position for which the Director of Resolution in the FROB has been proposed, Paula Conthe, who will replace Jaime Ponce. According to current regulations, the president of the FROB is appointed by the Council […]
Calviño defends the salary increase for civil servants, because it helps to “recover consumption and activity”
The Economic Vice President, Nadia Calviao, has shown “surprise” by the criticism of the governor of the Bank of Spain, Pablo Hernandez de Cos, to the generalized rise in salaries for civil servants and has defended the measure because, among other factors, it will favor this group, seeing themselves with more income, increase their consumption […]
