• Energy reform The CEOE warns that Spain will resemble Venezuela if it intervenes in energy prices or limits dividends

The Government is willing to intervene in the price of electricity to stop the incessant rise in electricity bills and inflation.

"It is essential to adopt measures to stop this escalation of prices," said the First Vice President and Minister of Economic Affairs, Nadia Calviño, on Thursday, who acknowledged that among these measures "

caps are already being explored in the wholesale market to put an end to blackmailing

the that Putin has us under".

In the joint press conference that he offered with the German Finance Minister, Christian Linder, Calviño recalled that "among the options that have been included in the communication from the European Commission, the setting of ceilings in the wholesale market is included" .

And that this is something that

is going to be negotiated "in the coming weeks."

In this way, Calviño confirms that the Government is going to intervene in the market, something that the employers rejected this morning.

The president of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE), Antonio Garamendi, pointed out that a decision of this type could put Spain at the level of Venezuela.

"The most important thing for a country is trust, it is where people invest today. (...) Be careful with this because we would turn a temporary problem into a structural one and

we would begin to resemble some Ibero-American country whose regime we do not share many ideas with

" , has pointed out.

"We will not leave families alone"

Linder, for his part, has preferred not to respond to whether negative growth rates will be recorded in the coming months, something that seems increasingly likely, but he has stated that the sanctions against Russia "

are going to have a negative impact on our economies

" and that families are going to be particularly affected.

"In the medium and long term we want to reduce our dependence on Russia" but in the short term we must "cushion and reduce the consequences on families and economies."

The German official has even pointed out that the rise in inflation is causing "

some families to not even be able to keep filling their fridge

".

"We will not leave families alone," he insisted.

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