Endesa meets tomorrow, Monday with municipal officials about supply problems. The Barcelona city council states that they will hold a meeting with the CEO of the electricity company to seek solutions to a problem that affects some 29 municipalities in the metropolitan area

The electricity supply problems detected in various areas of Barcelona in recent weeks have prompted the City Council to urge Endesa , the supply company, to resolve the situation as soon as possible .

The councilor for Climate Emergency and Ecological Transition, Eloi Badía, said last Friday that tomorrow, Monday, he will meet with the CEO of Endesa in Spain, José Bogas, to discuss the problem and seek solutions.

In the midst of the debate over electricity taxes and their impact on the user, and now because of power outages , municipal entities are trying to get some kind of guarantee from the electricity company to ensure supplies.

Last Friday there was a meeting between the representatives of 13 city councils in the metropolitan area of ​​Barcelona and the Minister of Business and Connection, Ramón Tremosa, to seek a position of strength with Endesa .

The Barcelona consistory has opened an information file so that the utility knows the number and location of power outages greater than 30 minutes , and has warned that if a breach of service is detected, the necessary sanctioning processes will be opened.

Several social groups have spoken out on the problem, since they consider that the electricity company is in breach of the law, which establishes that it has two hours to resolve incidents, extendable to two more hours in some cases. From the Alliance against Poor Energy they denounce that these deadlines are not being met.

The state of the supply network and its age are the focus of municipal claims. Since Endesa lament the situation and have reported on several occasions that have been carried out improvement work on the electrical infrastructure in many neighborhoods that are still awaiting the green light from the council for its operation.

The electrical effects go beyond the city of Barcelona and its surroundings, and according to the PSC there are about 29 municipalities affected by the power outages in recent weeks. Municipal representatives and members of the PSC met last Wednesday with Endesa to analyze the situation in a meeting that the company described as practical and constructive.

How can I access European funds ‘ Next Generation EU as a company ? This is the question that many companies, especially SMEs , are asking themselves these weeks because of the fear of being left out of the rain of up to 140,000 million in six years that correspond to Spain.

The Roca Junyent law firm and the public administration consultancy specialized in the management of European funds, Daleph , have decided to launch a pioneering service in the market, dubbed ‘Test IN’ to allow companies to identify and assess “if their plans and / or projects are eligible for funding or grantsand, where appropriate, accompany them in adapting to the required criteria and obtaining funds.

“All of this will be articulated through the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan presented by Spain to the European Commission last October.

The service is launched after the General State Budgets and the Royal Decree-Law of urgent measures for the modernization of the Public Administration and for the execution of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan come into force. Through ‘Test IN’, interested companies will be able to analyze whether their plans and projects are likely to receive financing or subsidies.

All this based on a legal-strategic analysis that, among others, will assess the alignment of the project with the Government’s plans, the General State Budgets, which include 27,000 million from this source, and the new Royal Decree Law. identify if projects have a place as PERTE(Strategic Projects for Recovery and Economic Transformation), created to favor public-private collaboration, or, where appropriate, existing alternatives and pathways.

With this initiative, Roca Junyent consolidates its position as the law firm of companies, thanks to the development of services that anticipate both the needs of organizations and society. Daleph brings his expertise, especially in managing community funds.

The executive president of Roca i Junyent, Joan Roca; and the general director of Daleph, Gregorio Cascante , sealed the agreement with which they intend to attract companies interested in undertaking or participating in projects that can benefit from European funds in areas ranging from digitization to the energy transition , among others.

Adolfo Domínguez lost 15 million between March and November after reducing sales by 47%. Online billing grew by 28.2% with a sales penetration of 19.3%, but it did not neutralize the effect of store closings.

Adolfo Domínguez’s sales stood between March and November 2020 at 40.5 million euros, 47.1% less than in the same period of the previous year. The billing ‘on line’ grows 28.2% with penetration in sales of 19.3%, but did not neutralize the effect of the fall in business activity in physical stores.

39% of the company’s stores suffered some kind of opening or hours restriction during the second global wave of covid-19 (September-November 2020). Restrictions on trade and lower consumption forced the company to keep 43% of the workforce on file for temporary employment regulation (erte).

The coronavirus crisis causes an accumulated operating result in the third quarter of the year of -5.6 million euros and an attributed net result of -14.9 million, compared to the +5.5 million and -2.1 million generated past year.

The Adolfo Domínguez group continues to contract its operating expenses with a reduction of 11 million euros in its personnel expenses and 3.4 million in its current expenses.

“The coronavirus crisis continues to be decisive day by day, and more so for those companies that have an important social component with an activity marked by the evolution of consumption.

Given the restrictions on trade and mobility, we are taking all the necessary measures to guarantee the liquidity and solvency of our company until business conditions can be reestablished “, explained Antonio Puente, CEO of Adolfo Domínguez. Adolfo Domínguez’s sales contracted in all the markets in which it operates.

In Spain, the behavior of the textile set shows an average drop of 40.5%, according to data from the Textile Trade Association (Acotex). Adolfo Domínguez has an annual turnover of 115 million euros and employs 1,209 professionals (2019/20 financial year). The firm markets its garments at 348 points of sale in 18 countries

The leader of the PP, Pablo Casado , has assured this Thursday that liquidity must be injected into companies “so that they can survive” and has proposed creating a fund of 50,000 million that the Popular Group will materialize in an initiative in Congress, in line with what “other European countries” are doing.

The proposal is in line with that proposed by the president of the Catalan employer’s association Foment del Treball, Josep Sánchez Llibre, who insistently calls for a crash plan for that amount, based on direct aid and which he included in a recent letter that he sent to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez .

Casado, who has met with the president of the Chamber of Girona and the Consell de Cambres, Jaume Fábrega , has stressed that the economic shock plan that, in his opinion, Spain needs should include the reduction of taxes and the extension of the You see that the alarm state ends.

“It is necessary to carry out that shock plan now, of competitiveness and of rescue to the productive economy “, has abounded, to warn the Government that it is necessary to act and avoid that a new “economic stop” does “much damage to the State of the well-being” . Casado has defended the PP’s economic shock plan and pointed out that the PP already publicly presented this “alternative proposal” in March.

“It would be very positive to do it jointly with the Government because it is what the countries around us are doing,” he said, referring to the fall forecasts collected by international organizations and how the recovery forecasts for 2021 “are cooling.”

After indicating that this scenario raises “the regret” that the employment figures “may not recover in the short term”, he stressed that Spain “there are already more than five million Spaniards who want to work and cannot” and there are “a million freelancers at the eaves”.

For this reason, he has insisted that “an economic shock plan is necessary” and has described the one that Foment del Treball has sent to the Prime Minister as “correct”, since, as he has said, “coincides a lot” with what he proposes. the PP.

Casado has indicated that it is necessary to “increase liquidity “, but not with credits but by injecting “directly into the companies that are viable and are in a serious economic standstill with the resources so that they can survive.” It is about, he continued, that they do not lay off workers and the State “does not have to face unemployment benefits and the fall in collection.

“Foment talks about 50,000 million euros in a fund that could help these companies and we already said that we are going to register it in Congress. It is a fund, not of credits or ICO guarantees, but of direct injection which is what is happening in countries like Germany “, he pointed out.

Second, Casado has defended measures in the labor market to “extend ERTE until the end of the state of alarm.” “It has been talking for a long time and what we ask is that it be done at the last minute,” he stressed, to warn that there are companies that need to have that “certainty” for their “planning” and “to be able to endure.”