The Ministers of Labor and Social Security,

Yolanda Díaz

and

José Luis Escrivá

, will receive this Thursday in Madrid

Nicolas Schmit,

the

European Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs

, in full controversy over the pension reform, whose final design does not have the support from the employers' association.

The Luxembourgish, socialist, has always been perceived by the Minister of Labor as an ally in Brussels, a field in which the first vice president,

Nadia Calviño

, is

always more comfortable

, who has become a direct rival of Díaz in many negotiations .

Schmit will be in Spain until Saturday and will visit

Madrid and Seville

.

Your stay will begin with a meeting with

Yolanda Díaz

tomorrow morning and then you will have a meeting with

José Luis Escrivá.

The Minister of Social Security will update you on the latest

reforms

undertaken to ensure the

sustainability of pensions

, including the decision to

raise social contributions by 0.6 points

(80% of the increase will be borne by companies) and to create a

public pension fund

to promote occupational pension plans to the detriment of the incentive to save in individual pension plans.

The Bank of Spain will be able to give you its opinion of the reforms

Brussels had demanded

that any structural reform, such as the labor or pension reform, be approved with the

agreement in the social dialogue,

so Escrivá will predictably have to explain to Schmit why this time the approval of all the parties for what he calls the

Intergenerational Equity Mechanism,

and which in practice is an increase in labor costs.

The CEOE has opposed this measure since it considers that the productive fabric cannot support an increase in labor costs right now, when

other fixed costs such as prices or electricity are skyrocketing

.

After meeting with the two ministers, Schmit will meet with the governor of the

Bank of Spain

,

Pablo Hernández de Cos

, who has been critical of Escrivá's pension reform and will have the opportunity to convey to the commissioner the main

risks involved

in the side of increased spending.

The impact that the rise in social security contributions can have on job creation is another issue that may be addressed at this meeting.

The first vice president,

Nadia Calviño

, will be the next to see the commissioner during a

working lunch

, after he already has the opposing visions of Díaz and Hernández de Cos.

Visit to ONCE and the Gypsy Secretariat

In order to show you how the implementation of European funds is progressing, which barely reaches 35% of what was planned for 2021, the commissioner will visit

two ONCE projects

that are being financed with Community funds: the Talent Training Center Digital of the ONCE Foundation and the Hotel Ilunion Atrium, where most of the staff have disabilities.

On Friday, Schmitz will meet with

Ione Belarra

, Minister of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda, and then with members of the Spanish section of

the Economic and Social Committee (CES),

made up of different agents from civil and economic society.

The commissioner will close his visit on Saturday in

Seville

, where he will go to the

Fundación Secretariado Gitano,

financed by the European Social Fund, and whose objective is to integrate and not discriminate against the Roma population.

In the afternoon he will participate in a conference on the green pact and then he will hold a meeting with the mayor of Seville,

Juan Espadas.

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