The Minister of Industry and Tourism, Jordi Hereu, extended his hand to the family business this Monday. “I want to tell you that we want to walk with you and collaborate with you, because you are those who always fight, all your life and therefore, quoting Bertolt Brecht, you would be those who are essential for the challenges and opportunities that we have,” he elaborated. during the “XXVII National Congress of Family Business” organized by the Family Business Institute.
The message is highlighted after the discomfort that has been sown in the industry by the repeated sit-ins of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, who has refused to attend his national congress in the last six editions, when it is an appointment to which he has always attended. the chief executive.
“I believe that we all have to work together to carry out this project of a Spain that has great opportunities and great ambition,” the Minister of Industry encouraged at another time in a speech focused on the recognition of a group, that of the company. family, which has great leaders and references from the national business scene such as Inditex, El Corte Inglés or Mercadona.
Hereu thanked “the work they do every day in favor of the prosperity and social and economic development of this country.” “I would define them as the great economic and social engine of the country,” he added, paraphrasing precisely the President of the Government who, as he recalled, “defined them as the backbone of the business fabric in Spain.” “They might seem like protocol phrases from the Minister of Industry and Tourism in an event before an organization like yours, but I have to express to you that it is a conviction of my Government and also a personal one,” he added.
He praised that the family business “works from a culture of effort”, with the “entrepreneurial character”, but with the “essential” long-term vision that gives them being “responsible for a legacy.” According to him, this strategy results in “greater stability in employment, taking care of the human factor not from rhetoric, but day by day” and valued that “they are part of this economy linked to social impact” because “they have a social bond and they have a territorial link.” “No one should be surprised that they represent almost 60% of the gross added value”, almost 90% of the business fabric and that they represent almost 70% of the country’s employment, he added.
Using more numbers, he explained that behind the 2.7% growth of the economy and 0.8% in the second quarter “is its leading role”, that of companies “with a face and a surname, with a historical trajectory, but, above all, , with a vocation for the future”.
The minister urged closer public-private collaboration to face the challenges of Spain, but also within a Europe that has to reindustrialize and gain a productive base. “Our political model involves strengthening the business and industrial material base of our economy,” he assured.
Regarding support for the Government, Hereu announced that more than 200 electro-intensive companies will benefit this year from aid worth 300 million euros to compensate for indirect CO2 costs and recalled other programs deployed to support the business community. He pointed out, for example, that the PERTE VEC has already awarded more than 2,000 million, the PERTE Agro, about 182 million and the PERTE decarbonization, more than 322 million in line 1 alone.
Regarding the industry law, he expressed confidence that “calm” could be provided to be able to undertake it through a “great country pact for the industry”, with the ultimate objective of it being a useful law “to undertake the great challenges that “we have” and not “a law of a Government”.
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