The president of the employers' association,

Antonio Garamendi,

has condemned this Thursday

any possibility of "interventionism" in the energy market

and in the electricity companies, has stressed that

the Government cannot make any decision in this regard unless Europe allows it

and he has warned that, if he does, Spain will look like

Venezuela

.

"The most important thing for a country is trust, it is where people invest today. The first ones who invest are the Spanish, retirees who have shares in companies. Be careful with this because we would turn a temporary problem into a structural one and we

would begin to look like some country of Ibero-America whose regime we do not share many ideas

", warned the president of the CEOE in reference to the regime of

Nicolás Maduro.

Garamendi has pointed out that "interventionism is not in our DNA".

"We work on another line. (

The Government) cannot make any price intervention decision

, unless Europe allows spaces to be opened to balance that terrain," he said in statements collected by Europa Press.

He also does not support the "temptation to contain dividends"

and has warned that it

can lead to "less investment

".

The president of the employers' association has asked that everyone be aware that

the sanctions imposed on Russia to stop the war have a global effect,

and has shown his "express support" for all the decisions made by the European Union and the Government of Spain before the invasion of Ukraine.

"We have to be aware that Europe is in a war, we are in a war. Before we saw wars very close but not so close to us. This is a war that we are feeling very much our own and I say this because it is our own, it is in the center of Europe and affects Europe (...). It is the moment of freedom, of Western values, of democracy", said the president of the CEOE.

Garamendi has recognized that

the war worries businessmen

due to the

uncertainty

generated by not knowing the impact and consequences it will have and the time it will last.

PROTECTION OF THE SPANISH INDUSTRY AND COUNTRYSIDE

The president of the businessmen has warned that the situation in Eastern Europe is beginning to suffer in the

Spanish production sectors,

due to the

rise in the prices of raw materials and the rise in electricity prices.

Garamendi has asked to protect the

industry

, since "

there are already factories that are stopping because the costs are almost unaffordable

", as EL MUNDO reported this Thursday, and has also requested "

very special help with the Spanish countryside

", both in agriculture as well as livestock.

"I once again value a very special aid to the primary sector in Spain, because

we may have a supply problem.

You have to think that

corn

,

cereals

,

fertilizers

... are basic. The Spanish countryside needs very special support ", he insisted.

At the moment, the business community has not evaluated the impact of this crisis on employment, but Garamendi has admitted that "we are in a crisis and it can affect us."

"The same thing that we see is seen by all of Spain," he added.

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