The National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC) has proposed raise to 592 the number of municipalities in which Telefonica is not obliged to provide access wholesaler to its fiber network to other operators, compared to the current 66, according to the new regulation of wholesale broadband markets. The CNMC has approved launching a […]
Tag: European Comission
Brussels gives the go-ahead to the Budgets of Spain although it sees its fiscal stability at risk
Okay, but with caveats. The European Commission has supported this Wednesday the Spanish budget draft for 2021, sent a month ago, but expresses its concern for “long-term fiscal sustainability”, the high level of public debt and the fact that “the challenges for the real economy and the financial sector have increased”. All community partners, without […]
Montero announces that the Government will lower the VAT on masks from 21 to 4%
The Minister of Finance has defended the General State Budgets, assuring that it is a “project of the country, not of the Government.” “They lend”, he said, “confidence and certainty in the face of discouragement and hope” and this despite the fact that both the Bank of Spain and the AiRef have labeled them outdated […]
The EU will impose tariffs on the United States for its illegal aid to Boeing
The European Commission will approve tariffs on imports from the United States in response to the illegal aid that Washington has granted Boeing, announced this Monday the vice president of the Community Executive and head of economy Valdis Dombrovskis. “The United States has imposed its tariffs following the ruling of the World Trade Organization in […]
Escrivá ignores the Brussels warnings and criticizes the Bank of Spain for not “learning” from past mistakes
Jose Luis Escriva came to the Government as one of the figures with the greatest respect and credibility in the economic sphere of Spain. His appearances in Congress as president of the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (AIReF) were highly anticipated and valued by all forces. And his warnings were always taken into account […]
Brussels worsens the contraction of Spain in 2020 to 12.4%, the worst figure by far in Europe
Despite the good growth data for the third quarter, and without being clear about what will happen in the last weeks of the year, the European Commission the closing of 2020 for Spain looks very black. According to its latest macroeconomic forecasts, those for Autumn, published this Thursday, lhe Spanish economy will contract 12.4% in […]
The musical revolution is not enough: Spotify wants to lead the new battle of the podcast
The podcast stops the music and takes the floor. Spotify, the reinterpretation of an entire business, has now turned to what Federica Tremolada considers “the main phenomenon for the media this 2020.” The general director of the company for Southern and Eastern Europe sees the way forward: “We have the platform that definitely revolutionized music, […]
Citrus farming demands from the EU more control over South Africa’s ‘unfair competition’ with pesticides
In the year that South Africa will break record in citrus exports, the sector continues to demand that the European Union (EU) increase control over imported fruit from this African country before the high number of pesticides detected by the Department of Agriculture. The latest wake-up call on the need to increase control over […]
The 42,000 million that Spain is gambling in the battle of the new CAP
The European Parliament and the twenty-seven member states finalize details of their positions regarding the negotiation of the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (PAC), one of the milestones of European integration, in which Spain gambles the distribution of 41,925 million euros, just over 34,000 in direct payments. Last July, the leaders of the […]
Nadia Calviño gives priority to now taking only EU subsidies and asking the next government for loans
The Economic Vice-President, Nadia Calviño, is in support of leaving some of the European Union’s aid, that of loans, for the next Government, if the current one exhausts the legislature and already catches only the subsidy section. In statements to Radio Nacional, Calviño has stated that “the government does not rule out credits at […]