The president of the Family Business Institute – and of the Estrella Galicia brewery – Ignacio Rivera, is calling for a state pact on energy on the same day that Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo clash again in Congress. “We represent 90% of the business fabric in this country, generate 70% of private employment, and contribute 70% of GDP… and we are worried,” he asserts.
“We are not doing our homework,” said the Galician businessman. “I find it very hard to believe that we cannot agree in Spain and in Europe on defense, technology, energy, housing… We need to get our act together so that there are state pacts.”
Some of Spain’s leading business figures participated in the assembly, such as the president of Barceló, Simón Pedro Barceló; of Banca March, Juan March; of Sener, Andrés Sendagorta; and of Saica, Ramón Alejandro. Also present were the president of Catalana Occidente, José María Serra; the vice-president of Iberostar, Sabina Fluxá; and the president of Alsa, Jorge Cosmen.
