Published 17 December 2022 at 08.14
Foreign. When Sweden bowed down in the EU negotiations and indebted an entire generation of its own citizens to pay out 390 billion in EU aid to mainly southern European countries in 2020, many feared that the southern EU would more or less stop working. Nevertheless, Spain managed to hold on – until now.
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A shortened working week with maintained salary will now begin to be severely tested in left-wing Spain, writes The Local.
Now the government there has decided to go ahead with the inflation-driving measure despite the state of the economy, while many newly elected governments in the north of the EU have had to renege on their election promises for fear of increased inflation.
On Friday, Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez launched from Socialist Workers' Party a pilot project to “test” how productivity is affected by such an arrangement.
The 50-year-old socialist leader himself claims that “research” shows that the entire loss in working hours can be recovered through efficiency gains in the Spanish economy.
At the same time, according to opinion polls, Spanish voters expect that the system, which is largely financed of taxpayers in the north of the EU, must become permanent.
Formally, however, the new rules must be “tested” – for a generously extended two years – before a decision is made whether they should be made permanent or not.
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