2023-11-09 12:25:32
Javier Elorza is a Spanish diplomat, now retired, who held various positions related to the European Union (EU), including permanent representative (ambassador). He participated in the creation of several financial instruments, such as the Cohesion Fund, and he knows their mechanics and operation inside out. He has the figures of yesteryear and the rules of the game in his head, which allows him to assess the current situation. After an analysis of the current situation and based on the evolution of our income, he affirms that Spain is losing the opportunity to get more money from the community coffers. And he adds that this is not the worst thing, since the acting Government of Pedro Sánchez is “passing away” from claiming those “funds”, as if the matter were not with them, either due to ignorance, or due to carelessness and apathy. Elorza is not referring precisely to the Recovery Fund, launched after the pandemic, but to the instruments that we could call “old”, such as the Structural Funds and especially the Cohesion Fund, which Felipe González took from the other Member States, who resisted, yes, like a cat on its belly, back in 1994.
If the above is happening, something that I do not doubt given the solvency of Elorza, we would be faced with a very serious event. At least as much as the management of the Recovery Fund money, about which we don’t know much. I would like to know how much “pasta” has arrived in Spain through this route so far and who the recipients have been. I give special importance to whether they are public, I understand as such the different Administrations (central, regional and local) and the entire plethora of companies, also public that depend on the previous ones. I would also like to know the amount of money that has reached private companies, especially SMEs and the self-employed. I am not saying that they have not received that financing, but what I can say is that I do not know any small and medium-sized business owner, as well as self-employed workers, who have been directly awarded with that “lottery.” The Government is obliged to provide this information to those here and to Brussels.
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