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The people’s paper ISSUE NO. 1860
25 Feb - 3 March 2021
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€11 BILLION BOOST
SANCHEZ has announced a new €11 billion fund for tourism, hospitality and small businesses. Spain’s President Pedro Sanchez said the govern‐ ment “will approve an ad‐ ditional package of €11 billion to continue sup‐ porting companies, SMEs and the self‐employed.” In this way, he said, “we will strengthen their sol‐ vency so that they can start the recovery in full capacity. We have the vo‐ cation to leave no one be‐ hind and always look ahead.” The government hopes the rescue package will provide a lifeline to those employed in the tourism and hospitality sectors, and small businesses. In a speech at the Congress on Wednesday, February 24, Sanchez said that these resources will seek to “strengthen the solvency of the balance sheets,” facilitate the re‐ turn of the sectors’ activi‐ ty, and allow for “the nec‐ essary investments” to be
SANCHEZ: Also assured the creation of ‘quality employment’ in the next three years.
made for the hiring of workers. Sanchez highlighted the fact that, since the begin‐ ning of the pandemic, the
government has commit‐ ted 20 per cent of GDP re‐ sources in an exercise of protection never seen be‐ fore, which he said includ‐
ed funding ERTE and transfers of financial sup‐ port to autonomous com‐ munities. “The payment of ERTE
Julen’s parents’ new baby THE parents of Julen, the two-yearold who died after falling down a borehole more than 100 metres deep in Totalan, have had a baby girl. The child was born in Malaga City shortly after the three-year anniversary of Julen’s death. The parents, Victoria and Jose have recently announced the good news. They also list their first child, Oliver, who died suddenly when he collapsed in the street, and since Julen’s death, they had suffered the death of their unborn child.
The owner of the property where the well was located, David Serrano, admitted his liability in the events and was sentenced in January 2020 for negligent manslaughter. More recently he avoided prison after paying €500 in compensation. His defence lawyer, Antonio Flores, explained that Serrano doesn’t even have enough money to eat, and that the lawyer’s office had lent him money to avoid him going to prison. He is unemployed, which is why he is unable to pay the agreed €50 per month to Julen’s parents.
He was sentenced by a Malaga criminal court to pay the parents of Julen, who died in January 2018, €89,529 in compensation, plus €663,982 to the Junta de Andalucia to cover the expense of the rescue operation. Julen, fell into an uncovered borehole for a well dug in Cerro de la Corona, 25 to 30 centimetres wide and 107 metres deep. He had run off on his own while his father and David Serrano were preparing to cook a paella. H is body was recovered days later.
salaries and benefits alone amounts to some €40 bil‐ lion of direct aid,” he said, adding that €24 billion of aid has been given to au‐ tonomous communities to reinforce healthcare among other things. Sanchez assured that the creation of “quality employment” will be one of the main eligibility cri‐ teria of all the projects of the new Recovery, Trans‐ formation and Resilience Plan, and estimates around 850,000 jobs will be created in the next three years. During this period, the President said that the country will receive around €80 billion in di‐ rect transfers, out of a to‐ tal of €140 billion within the recovery programmes agreed in the European Union.