The president of the government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, He announced Monday, from Barcelona, that before the Executive made a decision regarding the BBVA hostile OPA on the bank of Sabadell, approved with conditions by the National Commission of … Markets and competition (CNMC) will open “a public consultation” tomorrow so that citizens and companies can contribute their opinion. «Our intention and desire is that our companies win and grow, but always with the objective of the general interest», Said the president.
during his speech at the quadge edition of the meeting of the Circle of Economy, Barcelona entity of the business sector presided by Jaume Guardiola, The Chief of the Executive has left open the decision that is above the table of the Council of Ministers after the CNMC was approved to a BBVA OPA on the Sabadell that has the political opposition of a part of the government, manifested by Yolanda Díaz, Second vice president and adding leader, as well as the preferential partners of the Government, such as ERC and Juns, and the Catalan employer.
Precisely, and during the first day of the meeting of the Circle of Economics there has been probably the image of the day, the Meeting in the halls of the Palacio de Congresos where the event is held between the president of BBVA, Carlos Torres, and that of Sabadell, Josep Oliuwhich have been departed in a separate one with apparent cordiality.
Subsequently, and in statements to the media, Torres has insisted on the benefits of an operation that would result, in his opinion, «A stronger bank and more prepared for the future ». “Something especially important at a critical moment in which Europe must wake up,” in reference precisely to the motto of the Circle Days.
Earrings of the decision adopted by the Government, after the consultation announced this morning, Torres has assured that they will maintain a maximum respect for the decisions that are made, as has been made with the pronouncement of the CNMC, «from which some have been some Important commitments that not only preserve competences but social inclusion, territorial cohesion and credit to SMEs and autonomous, especially here, in Catalonia ».
Sources from the Ministry of Economy and Business have pointed out, after the words of Sánchez, that this initiative of the Executive, announced by the President, is within the “scope of her powers” and the 15 business days that the Ministry has to make a decision regarding the OPA and if it raises the operation to the Council of Ministers. «The contributions collected in the public consultation They are secret and not binding, But they will be useful in decision -making on the operation, ”they have pointed out the same sources, which have added that this initiative” is in line with the regulations and is common in normative procedures, although in hostile OPA processes it is the first time it is used. “
Broker in Spain
Apart from the OPA on Sabadell, the president of the Government has manifested in relation to the great blackout last week. Sanchez has reiterated that the Executive continues to work “With prudence and rigor” because he wants to “get to the end to know what this incident has caused.” The president of the Government has not realized more, but has valued “the example of civility, calm and solidarity” of the citizens of the country in the situation of the blackout.
«No society in the world would have responded better than ours. Spain and Catalonia We are societies and countries Extraordinary, ”he added, to, then, to claim” the energy transition, “” green energies “and its price.
In an intervention full of optimism in an economic key and with an eye on Europe, directed by the issue raised by the Circle of Economy, Sánchez has assured that Spain is “in the European Union’s control cados,” he has loaded against the president’s US administration Donald Trump (especially for tariff policy) and has asked Europe not to close the doors to negotiate with China and India, among other world geopolitical actors.
«Europe will only have a future if you deepen the integration and commitment to an open autonomy strategy. We cannot end as other administrations do, ”he said.
Workday and tariffs
On the other hand, the president of the Government has asked the Catalan employer, and in this indirect way to Junts, not to oppose The reduction of working hours That it must be approved in Congress, at the initiative of the Council of Ministers, “that the employer does not close this initiative,” he said; And he has also requested that parliamentary groups support Measures against US tariffs that, too, they must be approved in the lower house. “I ask the parliamentary groups to validate the plan to respond to the tariff crisis, I ask you not to turn your back on your country,” he added.
Guardiola, who has presented Sánchez and recalled the issues that the Circle of Economy raises in its last opinion note and that give rise to the entity’s meeting, has claimed greater leadership in Europe, the increase in investment in NATO as a measure of security and defense and that governments allow to boost the economy. “The moment is serious and demands a reaction from Europe”, That, “paradoxically,” he mentioned, can become a “stability pole” against the new Trump administration. “Spain and Europe must be a coherent common space, built from the complexity and beauty of diversity” and “to tend bridges,” he concluded.
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