The Government of Spain and the European Commission are in favor of seeking “a broad agreement” in the EU to issue an international vaccination certificate that allows travel and circumvent the restrictions imposed to prevent the spread of Covid-19, as they have stated sources from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The initial proposal has come […]
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The government says it will present 170 reforms to Brussels in exchange for the funds and the unions demand “prudence” of it.
The Government will present 170 reforms in 30 chapters to the European Union in exchange for European funds, according to the leaders of CCOO and UGT after a meeting with several ministers headed by the vice president Nadia Calvio. So much Unai Sordo, from CCOO, as Pepe Ã??lvarezThey have shown fear that the Executive will […]
The Government will issue less public debt due to a higher tax collection than expected
Tomorrow the Public Treasury will announce a reduction in the issuance of debt foreseen in the General State Budgets for 2021, as advanced by the Third Vice President of the Government and Minister of Economic Affairs and for Digital Transformation, Nadia Calvio . In an interview in Cope, Calvià ± o explained that, thanks to […]
Montero advances that the deficit closed 2020 at around 11.3% of GDP
The Minister of Finance, Maria Jesus Montero, has advanced that the public deficit closed 2020 according to the forecast estimate of “around 11.3% of GDP”, with a fall in public income of about 7.6% as a consequence of the Covid crisis. This is what Montero has indicated in an interview with Europa Press, in which […]
Brussels approves Google to buy Fitbit
The European Commission (CE) approved this Thursday that the American multinational Google acquires the technology firm for sports and health Fitbit, an operation valued at about $ 2.1 billion. “We can approve Google’s proposed acquisition of Fitbit because the commitments will guarantee that the market for portable devices and the incipient digital health space will […]
Brussels threatens to chop up big tech if they repeat anti-competitive behavior
The European Commission continues to tighten its belt digital giants. On the fiscal side, on the technical side and on the political side. After launching measures to try to advance the objective of fair taxation, this wednesday the team of Ursula von der Leyen It has presented two proposals in one of its main priorities […]
The EU unlocks the veto of Hungary and Poland and reaches an agreement for the Budget and the Recovery Fund
The Heads of State and Government of the 27 have settled this Thursday, after weeks of tension and paralysis, the dispute over the controversial Mechanism of the Rule of Law, an instrument that will allow, in exceptional cases, freeze community funds for those who push the rule of law and community values to the extreme. […]
The digital infrastructure sector aims to attract up to 32.5 billion European funds
Digital infrastructure companies aspire to attract a total of 32,500 million euros from European funds, as calculated in the Conference Investment opportunities in digital infrastructures organized this Thursday by the DigitalES association. Jose Antonio Vázquez, from the operator Onivia, recalled that, of the 72,000 million investment going to Spain from Brussels to face the covid […]
The pandemic pardons public accounts
The pandemic as a pardon for our shortcomings, the pandemic as a cover-up for mistakes, the pandemic as a blank check for political power. The most important paragraph of the opinion of the European Commission on the Budgets of Pedro Sanchez is the one that warns that, without the excuse of the coronavirus, Spain would […]
EU applauds Trump’s departure from the g20
The relief is such that the president of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, did not even publicly moderate his cheers for Donald Trum’s forthcoming disappearance from the mighty g20 club. The group of the 20 most powerful countries on the planet to which Spain attends as a permanent guest, this weekend will be […]