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Bread for today, hunger for tomorrow: Next Generation funds and the silent debt to competitiveness
Spain allocated more than €10.2 billion from the Next Generation EU funds to current expenditure. Are European funds being used to transform our productive fabric, or are we facing a case of bread for [...]
Electric Grid Access Is Capping Asturias’ Industrial Potential
Strategic investments in the region are hanging in the balance not because of a lack of capital or business ambition, but because the electrical infrastructure is unable to absorb demand. “There are i [...]
Europe aims to promote standardised solutions for sustainable industrial management
The European Commission has launched the call for proposals LIFE-2026-CET INDUSTRY, which seeks to create synergies between companies involved in the same processes. Europe seems to have understood th [...]
Temporary aid to address a permanent fragility
The European Commission is consulting Member States on a temporary aid framework for sectors exposed to the Middle East crisis, with the aim of adopting it before the end of April. Industry is not ask [...]
The “Electrical Gold” of Small Municipalities
Of the 6,102 electrical substations analyzed across the country, 3,387 are located in municipalities with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants, representing 55.5% of the total, according to the latest analys [...]
Grid access, but for whom? The key question that RDL 7/2026 still does not answer
Royal Decree-Law 7/2026 sets out general guidelines, but does not translate them into operational criteria. The debate is not whether there should be public intervention, but how it is articulated wit [...]

Bread for today, hunger for tomorrow: Next Generation funds and the silent debt to competitiveness
Spain allocated more than €10.2 billion from the Next Generation EU funds to current expenditure. Are European funds being used to transform our productive fabric, or are we facing a case of bread for today and hunger for tomorrow? Diverting these flows to cover present-day budgetary urgencies deprives the industrial sector of the incentives needed to undertake high-risk investments that cannot be postponed. If the country does not seize this his [...]
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