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ACS, Ferrovial and Acciona face potential additional costs of up to €500 million due to end of tolls on motorways

Norbolsa | The government will return 1,000 kilometres of toll motorways to public management in December 2025, after 19 years under private concession. Construction companies such as ACS, Ferrovial and Acciona face potential additional costs of up to €500 million to comply with the standards required by the Ministry. In principle, the government should deliver the reports to the concession companies with the action plan this month, and the companies…

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Spain confronts Brexit: The moment of truth for Spanish companies in the UK

IAG potentially interested in 49.9% stake in TAP Portugal put up for sale by Portuguese government

Bankinter | The Portuguese government is putting 49.9% of TAP Portugal up for sale. 44.9% will go to investors and 5% to employees. The details of the operation are not yet known. Analysis team’s view: This news was expected, and there was even the possibility that 100% would be put up for sale. Remember that TAP was nationalised during the pandemic (at a cost of €3.2 billion). This news is…

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US continues to send letters to countries informing them of establishment of tariffs as of 1 August

Renta 4 | The United States has continued to send letters (to six countries) informing them of its next steps, mainly the establishment of tariffs from 1 August. However, on Wednesday, these were sent to countries of lesser importance in terms of trade volume, while the markets remain complacent in anticipation of the announcement of trade agreements with more important partners (the EU and India). In addition, countries such as…

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antonio bonet

“We need to approach negotiations with the U.S. on terms that are completely different from those currently being proposed”

Says Antonio Bonet, president of the Club of Spanish Exporters and Investors. He points out that “Europe has a single tariff applied by all member states, but the U.S. applies a tariff to each country, meaning it can decide that the tariff applied to Spanish black olives is higher than that for Italian olives, as it did at one point. So there is a part of the negotiation between Europe…

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“It is a shame that we are able to mobilize economic resources for large-scale projects abroad, but not in our Spanish market”

In an interview with Consejeros magazine, Sacyr’s coordinating advisor, Elena Jiménez de Andrade, explains that now “We have great capacity to win projects, a capacity that until now contrasted with a series of financial limitations and balance sheet size. However, in this strategic cycle, we are going to eliminate those barriers. That is why we have set an ambitious goal for 2033: to triple the value of our assets. We…

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