The president of the CEOE, Antonio Garamendi, visited Valencia yesterday and the first stop was at the Palau de la Generalitat, where he showed “in tune” with the policies of Carlos Mazón’s Executive, as the Valencian president himself explained. His visit was almost a return visit, since the day before (Wednesday), the CEV, which yesterday acted as host, had gone to the employers’ headquarters in Madrid to demand aid from the Government for the battered ceramics sector.
“What happens in the territory of the Valencian Community is fundamental,” Garamendi said regarding the tile. Subsequently, and when asked by journalists, he avoided asking whether the regulations of the Create and Grow Law – which penalizes late payment – should be changed to facilitate aid for ceramics. “We are very clear that the tile industry is a sector that must be helped, but exceptions… Exceptions and laws are not compatible,” said the businessman.
Where the president of the Spanish employers’ association did not show any hesitation was in showing his support for the water requests of the Valencian Community, where the CEV recently presented a balance of necessary investments (estimated at 2,264 million euros for the socioeconomic development of the Valencian Community). to which the Consell gave support. “We demand this solidarity from the State level with respect to water,” said Garamendi, who also demanded that “the reality be studied technically and how the debate can be managed” which, he believes, “should be on the table for on top of great identity debates”.
The issue of water, which already translates into a drought that leaves restrictions in Catalonia and very probably soon also in Andalusia, is for the head of the Consell “an industrial, tourist and transversal problem, because water is part of and belongs to all of us.” “. And that is why Mazón predicted the same battle in this area as the one with the Port of Valencia – “we will fight it with water in the south, the Port in Valencia and the ceramics crisis in Castellón” -, an infrastructure that also The president of the CEOE went to visit yesterday.
The Port and ceramics were two issues highlighted by Salvador Navarro, president of the Valencian employers’ association. Navarro, who chaired the joint meeting of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the CEV in the Port with the presence of Garamendi and the president of the Port Authority, Mar Chao, stressed that the port of València “is number 1 in Spain and that is also why it is the port of Spain”.
