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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