The First Vice President and Minister of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Nadia Calviño, has advanced this Thursday that she will convene a meeting with social agents and with the financial sector, in order to channel the 84,000 million euros “in the most efficient way”. euros of loans assigned to Spain from the European funds ‘Next Generation EU’.
«We share the vision that we have to take full advantage of the extraordinary opportunity of the ‘Next Generation EU’ funds and for this we are going to continue working together to articulate a set of funds that allow us to streamline and be as efficient as possible in channeling these loans to the real economy”, Calviño pointed out this Thursday in statements to the media after meeting this Thursday with employers and unions at the headquarters of the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
Calviño has indicated that the social agents have transmitted their suggestions and proposals to the addendum to the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, with which they intend to mobilize 7,700 million additional transfers, 84,000 million euros of loans assigned to Spain and 2,600 million of euros within the REpower EU program.
The head of Economic Affairs has informed that it has also been agreed at today’s meeting that in the coming weeks a diagnosis will be made to identify those shortages of qualified workers, with the aim of supplying them and being able to promote their participation in strategic projects and the investments of the Recovery Plan.
It is also intended to promote micro-accreditation programs and other initiatives in the field of training that allow all workers in the country to participate in these investments framed in future sectors in the green and digital field.
“We are going to work with the Minister of Education, with the Minister of Universities, with the Second Vice President and with the Minister of Social Security to, together with the social agents, carry out and promote this work with a technical analysis in the coming weeks”, has Calviño pointed out.
At this Thursday’s meeting, it was also agreed to “immediately organize” a meeting with the commissioners, who are the ones who lead the deployment of the Perte, and to convene the monitoring tables for these projects.
Regarding the economic context, the vice president has indicated that Spain must face this 2023 with the utmost prudence and caution but also fleeing from catastrophizing. “We are confident in the ability of the Spanish economy to continue growing and continue creating jobs even in this difficult international context,” she underlined.