The PP assures that its proposal for pensions is "spark a baby boom"

In its place, the PP’s proposal is that “we must provoke a ‘baby boom’, we must create employment, attract foreign talent as much as we can and foreign investment”. “If we don’t have more people working, we have a huge problem,” said Bravo. If the PP reaches the Government, maintains its deputy secretary of Economy, “we will sit down to talk in the Pact of Toledo about what is the answer that really gives security. We are not going to apply a reform that nobody agrees with. It’s not the formula.” The PP intends to present job creation plans for 1.7 million unemployed, with the aim of increasing social security contributions by 16,000 million. That, and the “baby boom” that Bravo mentioned at the beginning of his speech.

“If it does not have the endorsement of Brussels, we believe that it causes damage”

In his criticisms of Minister José Luis Escrivá, who has led the pension reform, the PP’s Deputy Secretary of Economy has questioned said rule for lacking the endorsement of AIReF and other study centers such as Funcas, Fedea or BBVA Research. Along the same lines, he has made Escrivá ugly for having “lied” when saying that the reform has the endorsement of the European Commission, although Bravo later admitted that Brussels “possibly will endorse this reform.”

“If it does not have the endorsement of Brussels, AIReF or other organizations and we believe that it causes harm, we cannot vote in favour, but of course we believe that it has good things”, Juan Bravo acknowledged. Surprising, precisely, the comment on the endorsement of Brussels the same day that Spain receives the third disbursement of European funds, by obtaining the go-ahead for the payment of 6,000 million euros by the European Commission.

Minister Escrivá explained this Thursday in an interview on Onda Cero that, technically, Brussels “can only endorse [la reforma de las pensiones] when Spain requests the fourth payment”. However, the minister is “one hundred percent” convinced that this endorsement will come because various teams from the European Commission and the Ministry have been working together on this reform for “two months”, clarified José Luis Escrivá.