In addition, he has called for a “review of general budgets” and for compliance with the Toledo Pact to talk about pensions or civil servant salaries.
Euskaraz irakurri: Garamendik (CEOE) “aurrekontu-zorroztasuna eta ekonomia-ortodoxia” eskatu ditu, KPIa kontrolatzeko
The Chairman of the CEOE, Antonio Garamendihas claimed “Fiscal Discipline and Economic Orthodoxy” until check the CPI and that the data released this Friday will not become anything “structural”. In addition, he requested areview of the General Budgets“just like that the Pact of Toledo meets to talk about pensions, the salaries of civil servants and “how are the collective agreements”.
Garamendi has presented in Vitoria-Gasteiz, in the context of the SEA meeting, a conference on ‘Challenges and keys for the future in the face of the challenges and uncertainties of the economy’. Earlier, in response to media questions, the head of the employers’ association was questioned about the CPI data released this Friday.
In that sense, he warned that inflation is “a problem and a variable that we haven’t considered for years.” “All the economists told us it would go from a cyclical level, but the reality is it looks like it’s going to get more structural over time,” he lamented.
In this way, he has maintained that as inflation becomes structural, the competition problem will be “very serious”. “Our country works well for all things foreign trade… 34% of GDP is foreign trade, and we are concerned,” he acknowledged.
“Aware of what we have above us”
According to him, “fiscal discipline and economic orthodoxy” are needed to control the CPI. “We have to be aware of what we have on top of us. The economy is global and global One thing we would like to happen, and another, the measures that need to be taken for this to go well: budgetary rigor and economic orthodoxy,” he insisted.
For this reason, Garamendi has called for a “revision of the general budgets”, as well as a meeting of the Toledo Pact: “It is very important to talk about pensions, the salaries of civil servants and how the collective agreements work”, he has said. argued.
In that sense, he stated that to talk about an income agreement, it is “necessary for the whole society to sit down at the table to really talk, because the problem is not a joke”.
pay increases
With regard to pay increases, Garamendi has stated that the CEOE has not discussed “at least” that they cannot take place, but that they must Assess which sectors are “better than others”
“We’re going to have to talk about competitiveness, productivity, employment… What we can’t share is not so much saying it’s some quantity, but that it’s a function of inflation,” he indicated, adding that those that “really suffer from inflation are the companies”.
“It’s a question of transparency, of talking to each other, of agreeing, but of realism. We don’t say no, but that we are realistic,” he insisted.
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