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Spanish economy 25th April 2024

Sánchez loves Gomez… and threatens to resign on the day a judicial investigation into his wife’s shady business dealings is opened

Yesterday morning, a judge opened an investigation into the shady business dealings of Begoña Gómez, the wife of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, which we have already reported on in The Corner: “Something fishy in La Moncloa: Pedro Sánchez’s wife recommended two companies in a public tender for a €7-million contract” https://goo.su/G3nnf And in the afternoon, in a letter posted on his social networks, the president of the government announced that…

European economy 24th April 2024

Telefónica controls 96.85% of Telefónica Deutschland, now delisted on Frankfurt Stock Exchange

Telefónica, through Telefónica Local Services GmbH, announced on Tuesday that it owns 96.85% of the shares of Telefónica Deutschland, following the completion on April 18, 2024 of the tender offer for the public tender offer for the acquisition of Telefónica Deutschland, announced on March 7, 2024. The total number of shares acquired amounts to 74,338,954 shares, representing approximately 2.5% of the share capital and voting rights of Telefónica Deutschland, for…

World economy 24th April 2024

BoJ preview: a still negative neutral rate calling for pause notwithstanding weak Yen

Alicia García Herrero (Natixis) | After the Bank of Japan (BoJ) terminated the key non-conventional monetary policy tools in March, namely the negative policy rate and the yield curve control (YCC), evidence on a strengthening virtuous circle between inflation and wages has been limited. However, real wages -which fell by -1.8% year-on-year in February – are unlikely to turn positive soon. Furthermore, services inflation excluding imputed rent softened to +2.9%…

“Spain has a good energy plan but if things don’t change, it won’t be fulfilled”

José Bogas, ENDESAS’s CEO, explains in Consejeros magazine that “295,000 million of investment is needed for the period 2021-30, and we have many years ahead of us when when we are not investing at this pace. Of these 295,000 million, 118,000 million are for renewables; 85,000 for energy efficiency, but almost nothing has been done so far; 53,000 for networks, which is more than 5,000 every year and we have…

“In banking funds, there are sales targets and conflicts of interest”

“An electric car in Germany today emits more CO2 than a diesel or a petrol car. That’s the reality, because 50% of electricity is generated with coal”

The CEO of Repsol, Josu Jon Imáz, took part on June 22 in a debate organised by the newspaper El Correo, and took the opportunity to warn of the hypocrisy, inefficiency and paradoxes of European energy policy.For example, in Spain it is forbidden – by law – to explore for and produce natural gas “and at the same time we are encouraging companies to bring gas from the United States,…

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