The Government has formally requested this Friday from the European Commission the
disbursement of 10 billion
euros of European
Next Generation
funds
, which
will not reach the country until next year.
This disbursement would be added to the
9,036 million
euros that Spain already received in the summer, when the Recovery Plan was approved and that amount was released as an advance.
Spain has been the
first country in the EU
to request the next payment, as reported by the Ministry of Finance.
The Government has had to present proof that it has met the
52 milestones
to which this disbursement was subject.
Once received, the European Commission has two months to evaluate it with the different member states and with the Economic and Financial Committee, before approving the disbursement.
Although Brussels will officially carry out this examination of the application, sources from the European Commission have confirmed to this medium that
the dialogue with the Government of Spain has been fluid
in recent months and both parties have ensured that the milestones are met. has occurred.
Initially it was planned that the Executive would make the request in October, which would have allowed the 10,000 million to arrive in 2021. As it has been delayed a few days, it is foreseeable that
the payment will not arrive until 2022
, with which Spain will have received only 9,000 of the 27,000 million that it had planned to execute this year.
Only 18.5% of the budget for 2021 has been executed
Although the Government will not receive the 27,000 million this year, the pace of execution is so slow that it will not have had to advance anything via public debt, since
at the end of October it had only executed 5,000 million of the funds
and through transfers to other administrations, so the money has not yet reached the real economy.
To date, Spain has had no difficulties in complying with the milestones agreed with Brussels, but
the scenario is complicated from now on
.
For the next disbursement, the Government will already have to demonstrate that it has managed to approve in the last quarter of this year the
labor reform
and
the pension reform,
which are currently stuck in the social dialogue tables and that continue to generate disputes within the Coalition Government itself and the Council of Ministers.
This Monday, November 15, theoretically the
deadline that the Ministry of Social Security had given
to have agreed on a pension reform with the employers and the unions
ends
.
The three parties have a meeting scheduled for that day, but the positions are still far apart and the agreement seems complicated.
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