The Diplomat
The Secretary General for Economic Affairs and G20 of the Presidency of the Government, Manuel de la Rocha, has assured that the Spanish economy “is recovering strongly” and said, at an event of the Business Council Alliance for Ibero-America (CEAPI), that “a good part” of the European recovery funds will be devoted to “improving human capital”.
“Spain is a country with significant potential and its economy is recovering strongly,” said De la Rocha during his speech at a business meeting organized by CEAPI in which also spoke the president of the Council, Núria Vilanova, and several business leaders from Latin America.
“From the Government we face the year with a lot of optimism, with a very good inertia to start with and with solid foundations,” he continued. “The Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan”, approved by the Government thanks to the European funds to overcome the COVID crisis, “seeks to give stability, confidence and certainty to investors” and defines “clearly the axes of the reforms that we are going to carry out”, he continued.
“The agenda includes more than one hundred reforms, agreed with the European Union, and they have a very strict timetable that we are going to comply with”, assured Moncloa’s Secretary General for Economic Affairs. Besides, “we are clear that, in the medium and long term, the improvement of Spain’s productivity depends on the improvement of human capital” and, therefore, “a large part of the European funds will be devoted to the reform of aspects such as education, vocational training, the university system and science”, he explained.
To this end, the Government has requested the support of businessmen to “detect what the needs of companies are” and has committed, through the plan, to achieve the digitalization of one million companies, continued De la Rocha, who also announced that, “in the coming months”, they will “launch calls for European funds worth 17,000 million euros to accelerate the plans and that the impact on companies, the economy and citizens is real”.
Núria Vilanova highlighted the importance of “Spain in the economic transformation and recovery in Ibero-America, joining forces with institutions and companies”, and praised “the work of companies in the cohesion of international relations between Spain and America”, as well as the role of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, “in the commitment to Ibero-America, which has to be contagious to all institutions”. He also recalled that the V CEAPI Ibero-American Congress will be held on June 1 and 2, 2022 in the Dominican Republic, making it the first Latin American country to host this international business meeting.
