[AUTO] Spain will ask the EU to allocate 10% of its revival plan to the automotive sector

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The Spanish government will ask the European Union for a firm commitment to the automotive industry through the economic recovery plan. It will do so on Friday, in the midst of the informal meeting of competitiveness ministers, in which it will launch a proposal for 10% of the planned 1.6 trillion euros to be dedicated to that sector. This was stated this Tuesday by the Secretary of State for Industry, Raül Blanco, in a telematic event called by the employers' association of vehicle manufacturers Anfac, in which he defended that "we have to make a deep and European reflection very seriously" on the automotive.

 

 

 

The ministry is working on the design of a plan to support the automobile industry in Spain together with the sector, which would include a plan for aid to the acquisition of vehicles. But this Tuesday Blanco has trusted the great response to the claims of car companies to the reaction of the European Union, and has not even ruled out that the purchase subsidies can be articulated to boost the market to a fund of the whole EU that meet environmental criteria and boost R&D.

The Secretary of State has acknowledged requests for help from the sector, prior to the coronavirus crisis and which have been reinforced in the last month, since the state of alarm forced factories and dealerships to close, cutting production and sales at the root. Of automobiles. "We have to give consistent support and be sensitive in regulatory matters," said Blanco, who said that aid "must have technological neutrality." He thus referred to the controversy over whether state subsidies should support only low-emission vehicles, as defended by the Ministry for Energy Transition, or should include internal combustion engines (gasoline and diesel), as claimed by the sector.

Edited May 13, 2020 by YaKuZa--BoSs
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