The secretary general of the European Commission responsible for the execution of European funds,
Celine Gauer
, warned this Wednesday in Parliament that each and every one of the reforms committed by the member states must be fulfilled in order not to suffer a suspension of disbursements.
“Gauer has been clear, the Government must fulfill the 52 reforms that it has promised to collect the 10,000 million euros that it expects at the end of the year. A single failure in one of the milestones of reforms promised by the Spanish government will lead to the suspension of funds. The European Commission will assess the reasons and decide later on whether to unblock them, ”one of the attendees, the PP senator, Rubén Moreno, told this newspaper.
Suspension does not imply loss, but it does imply delay. Gauer is responsible for the so-called
Recovery and Resilience Task Force (RECOVER)
in Brussels. She places more importance on the fact that the reforms comply with the Recommendations of the European Commission that they arrive on time in the calendar, but any non-compliance complicates the process because it forces the Government to motivate the delay so that the European Commission accepts the unlocking or partial payments.
Other parliamentary sources in attendance corroborate that Gauer gave that message that each and every one of the milestones must be respected before the spokesmen of the
Joint Commission of Congress and Senate for the EU
that took place behind closed doors. The words of the Eurofunctional show that the Government therefore faces risks when accounting in the Budgets for 2022 presented yesterday
27,633 million from European funds
that it is not yet certain that it will receive them.
Gauer stressed at the meeting that the
Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan "is a country project"
and that it must be implemented even if the Government changes, for which he pointed out the importance of its being carried out with consensus. She was positive with the plan, although she made it clear that it had been the result of dialogue between the Government and her own team and that now it must be implemented and specified. A hundred meetings between both parties took place before Pedro Sánchez sent the project to Brussels.
The
socialist deputy Pere Joan Pons
, argued before Gauer that the Government gives importance to the reforms being the result of social consultation and with the involvement of the autonomous communities, as the Commission wishes. However, the
PNV senator, Luis Jesús Uribe
, pointed out during the meeting that he is missing more consultation and dialogue with the autonomous communities for the implementation of the investments.
For his part, the aforementioned PP senator criticizes this newspaper for the government's lack of dialogue on the plan and the lack of independent control of the funds. Gauer explained that the audit carried out on each of the expenses is exhaustive and includes a registry of beneficiaries. "It was also clear that the Government must avoid measures that could endanger the budget balance in the medium term," says Moreno, who agrees that the plan must be truly transformative and not a failure that increases the already large structural deficit.
Gauer, who attended the
Mariana Pineda room of Congress
with a large team of collaborators, took note and expressly mentioned the labor and pension reforms to show that they are crucial for the
European Commission
. This French Eurofunctional made a round of visits to ministries and institutions, including the CEOE employer association. With this visit, the senior Euro-official made it clear that it considers it highly desirable that not only the unions, but also the employers, agree to a reform that should put an end to the secular leadership of Spain in the unemployment rate in the Eurozone. The
Vice-President of the European Commission, Valdis Dombrovskis
, is an advocate of the 2012 labor reform and argues that any change that is made must maintain flexibility in order to maintain flexibility in the labor market. The second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, maintains the need to repeal the reform of the PP and criticizes that "there are many people outside of Spain" who refuse, including
Dombrovskis
.
Regarding investments, Brussels is concerned that the high degree of decentralization of the State complicates the execution and effectiveness of the funds.
The Government tries to demonstrate that there is agreement and a day after Gauer's visit, the
Minister of Territorial Policy, Isabel Rodríguez
, announced that she has met this Thursday in
Alcalá de Henares
with all the Government delegates in the autonomous communities and cities to address, among other issues, European funds.
For her part, as this newspaper reported on the 30th, the first vice president,
Nadia Calviño
, has given
the presidents of the autonomous communities
15 working days
to send her three "strategic" projects.
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