Madrid (EFE).- The Vice President of Economic Affairs, Nadia Calviño, has advanced this Wednesday that job creation since the beginning of the year will reach 400,000 affiliates at the end of April, that is, an average “of 100,000 more affiliates per month ” in the first quarter of the year.
During the press conference after the Council of Ministers, Calviño took stock of the economic situation that, he has defended, shows an “acceleration” in the first months of 2023.
The vice president has especially highlighted the evolution of employment, with affiliation at maximums according to the Active Population Survey, a “positive dynamic” that is maintained in April according to the affiliation data that will be released this Thursday, has advanced.
Job creation, he added, is concentrated in sectors such as non-financial services, information technology or the new digital economy, which shows that “for the first time quantity and quality go hand in hand”.
Calviño also highlighted that the Spanish economy is growing faster than that of other European countries, so that it has “practically recovered the level of GDP prior to the pandemic”, although the “main challenge” is inflation, now focused on the food price.
Calviño defends the “obvious results” of the measures against inflation
Nadia Calviño has defended this Wednesday “in light of the data” the “obvious results” of the “clear” measures taken by the Government to tackle the increase in food prices.
He has referred to the slowdown in food prices noted by the INE with the provisional results of the CPI for April, a decline that has been the “fundamental cause of the drop in underlying inflation.”
In any case, it has summoned to know the details when the final data of the harmonized CPI are published, foreseen by the National Institute of Statistics on May 12.
He has also responded to the upward impact that the drought may have on food prices, a “fundamental” situation that will affect agri-food products in a different way and that goes “in the opposite direction” to the effect of the drop in food prices. energy, fertilizers and “some normalization” in trade flows, including imports from Ukraine.
Calviño has once again defined the Government’s actions in this regard as “priority”, among which he has cited the reduction in VAT on food since January or aid to vulnerable families.
And it has indicated that the Government will take at “all times” the measures that it deems “effective and timely” without generating “other undesired effects.”
He has also applauded the measures adopted and announced by some chains on shopping baskets at low prices, commercial strategies that are welcomed “favorably” in the face of a problem, he recalled, that is not exclusive to Spain.