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Union leaders give the go-ahead today, but said they were still open for talks with the Government.
Cándido Méndez and Ignacio Fernández Toxo - Photo EFE
The Spanish trade unions have voted today, Friday, to call a General Strike which will be held on March 29. The agreement has been led by the two main unions in Spain, CCOO and UGT.
The date coincides with another strike which has been called by the nationalist unions in the Basque Country and Navarra, and is the day before the State Budgets for 2012 are revealed in Congress.
The Unions have said ‘This is a just and necessary general strike. It’s not an end, but a way to get the Government to negotiate’. The unions consider the labour reform has sackings from the start to the end, and as its target, and described it as ‘the most regressive in history’.
The PSOE opposition has called on the Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, to talk to the unions. The party’s organisation secretary commented ‘No strike is desirable’.
IU leader, Cayo Lara, said the Government could stop the strike by ‘going into reverse’ on the labour reforms.
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The inspectors have been here this week, trying to establish why the deficit has missed its target
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It has emerged that the European Union has sent inspectors to Spain to examine the public accounts.
The European Commission has complained that the numbers for the public deficit for last year ‘are changing continuously’.
Experts have been here from the European Commission this week, examining the public accounts after the Rajoy government announced the deficit for last year was 8.5% and not the 6% which was the target agreed with the EU by the previous administration.
Expansion business newspaper today quote EU spokesman for Economic Affairs, Amadeu Altafaj, who says,
‘It is a normal practice in all the countries of the economic and monetary union, and particularly those with an excessive deficit, which today are the vast majority of the EU’.
The Spanish Government has been asked how the deviation in the deficit came about, if it is down to punctual or structural items, and whether it can be attributed to central government, or does in come fundamentally from the regions.
The EU is also angry at how Mariano Rajoy unilaterally changed the deficit target for the end of this year to 5.8% from the 4.4% agreed with Brussels.
President, José Manuel Durao Barroso, has made it clear they will not relax the deficit for Spain until they know the reasons for last year’s numbers, and they have the details of the new cuts to be included in this year’s budget.
President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, has warned Spain she will be punished on the markets if she fails to meet the deficit target.
Union leaders give the go-ahead today, but said they were still open for talks with the Government.
Cándido Méndez and Ignacio Fernández Toxo - Photo EFEThe Spanish trade unions have voted today, Friday, to call a General Strike which will be held on March 29. The agreement has been led by the two main unions in Spain, CCOO and UGT.
The date coincides with another strike which has been called by the nationalist unions in the Basque Country and Navarra, and is the day before the State Budgets for 2012 are revealed in Congress.
The Unions have said ‘This is a just and necessary general strike. It’s not an end, but a way to get the Government to negotiate’. The unions consider the labour reform has sackings from the start to the end, and as its target, and described it as ‘the most regressive in history’.
The PSOE opposition has called on the Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, to talk to the unions. The party’s organisation secretary commented ‘No strike is desirable’.
IU leader, Cayo Lara, said the Government could stop the strike by ‘going into reverse’ on the labour reforms.
and...
The inspectors have been here this week, trying to establish why the deficit has missed its target
Archive Photo EFEIt has emerged that the European Union has sent inspectors to Spain to examine the public accounts.
The European Commission has complained that the numbers for the public deficit for last year ‘are changing continuously’.
Experts have been here from the European Commission this week, examining the public accounts after the Rajoy government announced the deficit for last year was 8.5% and not the 6% which was the target agreed with the EU by the previous administration.
Expansion business newspaper today quote EU spokesman for Economic Affairs, Amadeu Altafaj, who says,
‘It is a normal practice in all the countries of the economic and monetary union, and particularly those with an excessive deficit, which today are the vast majority of the EU’.
The Spanish Government has been asked how the deviation in the deficit came about, if it is down to punctual or structural items, and whether it can be attributed to central government, or does in come fundamentally from the regions.
The EU is also angry at how Mariano Rajoy unilaterally changed the deficit target for the end of this year to 5.8% from the 4.4% agreed with Brussels.
President, José Manuel Durao Barroso, has made it clear they will not relax the deficit for Spain until they know the reasons for last year’s numbers, and they have the details of the new cuts to be included in this year’s budget.
President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, has warned Spain she will be punished on the markets if she fails to meet the deficit target.
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