Body will explain on Wednesday at Congress the Government Plan against tariffs after a first round with the groups | Spain

Faced with the unusual support of the PP, the investiture partners clarify the government’s plan to protect the Spanish economy against the tariff war unleashed by the administration of Donald Trump and ask for a block response from the European Union. The Minister of Economy, Carlos Corpora, who will appear next Wednesday at Congress to account for the proposals announced already Thursday by President Pedro Sánchezhas maintained this Friday a first round of contacts with all parliamentary groups except Vox to press the chamber thermometer in a matter that greatly worries everyone. The position is not homogeneous: ERC is suspicious of the measures and claims that the credits are aids in lost depth, while we can claim « forcefulness », expropriating homes to the US investment funds. In any case, Corps has valued the meetings in a « positive and constructive way and has announced that next Monday she will meet in Luxembourg with the EU trade ministers and will ask that Europe create a fund to help the harmed sectors.

« Commercial powers are delegated to the EU and the collection of tariffs goes mostly to the European budget, » he justified body, which emphasizes that it is « the European umbrella » what citizens need. « We are today in a more fragmented and impoverished world, » said the person in charge, who has also advanced that on Tuesday there will be an interministerial meeting to follow up on the plan and on Thursday it will be the turn of listening to the autonomous communities.

In a moment of extraordinary gravity, with uncertainty for the US commercial offensive and after Sánchez put on the table an aid plan of 14,100 million for the most affected sectors, the Government already has the endorsement, rare, of the PP. At least, for now. This Friday, the economic head of the party, Juan Bravo, with whom the minister met a day before, has transmitted his support for the Executive. « We are going to be there, » he said. Both the Moncloa and the popular had made Unit calls To address a matter of extreme complexity, a slogan to which the president of the lower house, Francina Armengol, has joined from Granada.

The “Commercial Response and Relay Plan”, as it has been baptized, will have, among others, with two 6,000 million ICO guarantees, a 200 million investment support fund for new plants and the network mechanism, a tool similar to how ERTE worked during the pandemic.

ERC parliamentary spokesman Gabriel Rufián has been the first to meet with body this morning. Catalan independentistas have expressed reluctance on the government’s plan and express their « concern » about the impact that the initiatives raised may have « on citizenship, agricultural sector and industry. » « The Plan generates doubts, since it is based on credits that companies and citizens will have to return, when it would have to be a help thoroughly lost with European financing, » they argue. Esquerra advocates a joint strategy of the entire EU and not a « series of isolated state responses » and emphasizes the « need » to « find alternative markets to avoid being trapped in a commercial war that only harms citizens », with decisions, in addition, « unilateral and that favor other powers, such as China, » warns.

Add, a minority partner in the coalition of Sánchez, makes the Executive’s package in this case and also insists on the need for Europe to articulate a common tactic. « The Government of Spain is in front and will adopt all the necessary measures to protect employment, companies, the productive sector and workers, » defended the parliamentary spokeswoman, Verónica Babero, who has « congratulated » in this case to the PP for his attitude of « responsible opposition. »

It lasts as always with the drift of the Executive, the leader of Podemos, Ione Belarra, has criticized that the EU and the Government propose to “assemble to the teeth for a war in the military field that will not occur”, at the same time that they bet on “going in flip flops to the commercial war”, referring to the lack of “bravery” of the plan. For the party, what celebrates next week its V Citizen AssemblyThe government should attack the interests of the US vulture funds in Spain with the expropriation of their homes.

In a brief press release, the PNV also maintains that EU member states cannot defend themselves before these tariffs on their own and that we will have to work to have “a more united Europe that can negotiate jointly”. After the march of Aitor Esteban, chosen new leader of the nationalist training, Maribel Vaquero will formulate his first question as a new spokesperson for this issue to Vice President María Jesús Montero.

EH Bildu « Don’t see bad », a priorithe government’s plan, although it believes that we must « complement and accompany » the proposed measures with proactive policies to revitalize the industry, « not from an industrial commitment to war, » he says in a statement. Formation sources, who have moved after the meeting (to which the spokeswoman Mertxe Aizpurua has attended) their concern about the effects that tariffs may have in sectors such as wine, motor racing or agriculture in Basque of the EU.

The deputy of the Canarian coalition, Cristina Valido, has asked the minister to take into account the impact on the prices of the products that reach consumers in the Canary Islands for the increase in freight and that there is, therefore, an « update of the financing » of that transport. In statements provided to media, the spokeswoman has also claimed that the reality of the affected sectors in the archipelago, « fundamentally small and medium enterprises that cannot go to the state aids in a competitiveness system », but which, at the same time, find it more difficult to open up to new markets. Valido fears, in addition, that the commercial war impacts tourism issuing countries such as Germany, in a territory, the Canary, where this sector generates great economic activity. Neither BNG nor Junts have valued meetings for now.