These regional initiatives will be expanded “due to the unsustainable situation and suffocation of the productive fabric”
The president of the Community, Fernando López Miras, announced this Friday that his Executive is deploying “a package of economic measures at the regional level”, which will be expanded to alleviate “the unsustainable situation and suffocation of the productive fabric”, mainly caused due to the rise in the costs of raw materials, fuel and electricity, sources from the Community reported in a press release.
Thus, one of these initiatives is the mobilization of loans for an amount greater than 50 million euros at zero cost “for those companies in sectors that are being affected as a result of the war in Ukraine.” In other words, through the Development Institute (INFO), companies will be subsidized for the cost of the guarantee and the cost of interest on the loans they receive from banks.
In addition, the Community is going to reprogram the European funds it receives so that they are directed primarily towards current needs; It is going to implement a streamlining of regional bureaucratic procedures, and it is also working on a new energy plan to reduce costs.
López Miras reported on these actions during the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Government Council for Economic Affairs with the president of the Regional Confederation of Business Organizations (Croem), José María Albarracín, and with representatives of the employers’ association.
The measures involve all areas of the regional government, and to define them, all the sectors that are being affected by this crisis are being counted on. It is an open and flexible plan, since as the situation with the different economic plots is analyzed and their proposals are identified as pertinent, they are put into operation.
In the meeting with Croem, each sector of the Region of Murcia and its economic situation were addressed “one by one”. “Everyone is in a situation of suffocation, which must be reversed urgently,” López Miras warned. To do this, he has asked the central government to “react, to come out of inaction and to make concrete decisions such as those already proposed by the regional government: a tax cut yes or yes, and the reduction of VAT at the super-reduced rate for goods of basic necessities, fuels, gas or electricity».
Likewise, the head of the regional Executive has proposed to the Government of Spain “that the 85 million euros of the Business Solvency Plan that were not executed to alleviate the business damage caused by Covid can be used in the Region to help our productive fabric and to keep jobs.
In this line, he has described as “essential” that a specific plan for the agri-food sector be defined, and has also asked that customs for imports and exports be made more flexible, and “that companies be helped to look for new countries that can provide the necessary supplies.
“It is true that the regional government has a reduced scope of action, and that the one that can decisively alleviate the effects of this economic and social crisis is the central government,” López Miras has specified, for which he has sued the Executive of Pedro Sánchez “That they take that step forward, and that they be sensitive, because they are essential and necessary measures so that many families, many companies and many self-employed workers make ends meet and do not suffocate.”
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