The Spanish government’s Consumer Minister is insisting that they require these large distributors, who have “such high margins”, to “moderate their profits” in favor of families.
Euskaraz irakurri: Garzon: “Erosketa orga merkatzea possible da; banaketa enpresek bat egin beharko dute lehenago edo geroago”
The Minister of Consumption of the Spanish Government, Alberto Garzonhas emphasized that limit the price of the basket “it is possible” and is convinced that the major distributors “sooner or later” They will have to join this initiative promoted by the second vice president of the Spanish government, Yolanda Díaz.
In an interview with the “Boulevard” program on Radio Euskadi, which was also broadcast live on eitb.eus, the United Left (IU) coordinator assured that these large companies They have very high margins. and they have some advantages that can moderate, that’s what we’re asking for.” In this sense, he gave the example of a small Andalusian chain that has frozen the prices of 100 products. “How come the big distributors can’t? Obviously they can,” he added.
It has also admitted that at the moment they do not assess the obligation to set certain prices distributors: “Right now we are not in that phase.
The Department of Consumption has just published a list of products it believes should be in that basic shopping basket, including fruits and vegetables, legumes and proteins. Questioned in this regard, he explained that his ministry has “its own roadmap”, as do the distributors who “follow their commercial interests”. He states that they ask companies to “make not only a quantitative, but also a qualitative effort”, and therefore propose that “these baskets provide affordable consumption, but also healthyAs revealed, “lower-resource families have an obesity rate more than double that of higher-resource families” and this fact ultimately affects public health.
In the same vein, Consumption argues that the school canteens to ensure healthy eating, and has complained that some “private companies sometimes try to “maximize their profits” by including “lower quality products”.
Finally, he reiterated that the Spanish government and the European Commission have “the same mindset” on the need to taxes on energy companies, and that the European People’s Party itself “has taken that position”. the European People’s Party itself is based on “the statements of the executive. According to Garzón, “a synchronization must now be found between the measures proposed by the Spanish government and the European Commission”.
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Source: EITB
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