The president of Foment del Treball, Josep Sánchez Llibre, celebrated this Wednesday the “change in attitude” that he sees in the warm words dedicated by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, this week to a group of investors and senior officials of a group of multinationals present in Spain, to whom he guaranteed that in the coming years there would be “stability” and “certainty.” “This change of opinion is positive, but at the same time we ask that, as President of the Government, you extend these statements to the businessmen, self-employed workers and SMEs that make the country function every day,” commented the head of the Catalan employers’ association in statements to the press in Brussels.
Also “businessmen, investors and people responsible for the Spanish productive economy” want to have the “social peace, stability and predictability in the Government’s decisions” that Sánchez promised on Tuesday during the 10th congress of the Multinationals with Spain platform, held in Madrid, he said. Thus “we would finally move in the direction of sustained economic growth in Spain and the generation of quality employment that moves towards full employment,” commented Sánchez Llibre.
Political acronyms aside, “what we need are government decisions that do not impede the social market economy,” stressed the president of Foment at the end of his two-day official visit to the community capital, where he has maintained a dense agenda of meetings with representatives of the Economy and Transport portfolios in the European Commission, as well as in the European Parliament, where on Tuesday he met with its president, Roberta Metsola.
The leader of the Catalan employers’ association celebrated the announcement by the Community Executive of the entry of the H2Med hydrogen corridor into the list of projects of common interest (PCI), which implies that it will be eligible for community financing. In his opinion, this decision will allow Catalonia to become the “most important green hydrogen hub in southern Europe.”
“At Foment we will continue working to make the connection between Barcelona and Marseille viable in 2030,” said Sánchez Llibre. Although the design of the original project – the MidCat, rejected by France – was cheaper and faster to execute, the Catalan employers’ association is committed to accelerating the implementation of the new energy corridor between Barcelona and Marseille and to take advantage of the possibility of temporarily of natural gas. “There is a lot of talk about electrification, but little about the thermal energy needs of the industry, a good part of which cannot be electrified,” said Sánchez Llibre, without giving up another investment that for the moment has been ruled out by the Government. , the construction of another underwater gas pipeline between Barcelona and Livorno.
