Madrid (EFE).- The First Vice President of the Government, Nadia Calviño, has advanced that the April data known up to now point to “a sharp slowdown in food prices and core inflation”, while insisting that The Spanish economy “has already recovered the pre-pandemic level”.
Words by the Minister of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation at the opening of the second day of the IV International Expansion Forum, where she remarked that Spain is in “a phase of strong growth” and GDP “is approaching the rest of the indicators that are already well above that pre-pandemic level.”
He recalled that the growth forecasts for 2023 are higher than those of neighboring countries and that many organizations -both national and international- are revising them upwards, such as the Bank of Spain, which yesterday anticipated growth in the environment of the 2 %.
With regard to the evolution of inflation, the first vice-president assessed that “Spain remains among the countries with the lowest inflation in the European Union” and added that the advance in April points “to a sharp slowdown in the price of food and core inflation”, which is “good news”.
Due to the drop in energy and measures
In this drop in prices, according to Calviño, “the drop in energy and the measures adopted” have been key, as well as “the unprecedented reductions in taxes” that at the same time give “competitive advantages to Spanish companies.”
During her speech, the minister also referred to European funds and advanced that “the first calls for the Perte chip” will soon be launched, specifically one for research and development missions in the field of microelectronics and semiconductors (with an endowment of 60 million).
Another of the calls is for public-private chairs, with an investment of 80 million euros, which have the objective of “promoting and also attracting the best talent in this cutting-edge technological field so key to the strategic autonomy of Spain and Europe” .
On the other hand, Calviño wanted to value the salary agreement reached by the social agents, a “magnificent example of their responsibility” and of the importance of social dialogue, which “allows for social peace and gives confidence to companies, workers, investors and citizens”.