Interviews – The Corner https://thecorner.eu Business News & Financial News | Spain & Europe Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:51:43 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6.2 “It is a shame that we are able to mobilize economic resources for large-scale projects abroad, but not in our Spanish market” https://thecorner.eu/interviews/it-is-a-shame-that-we-are-able-to-mobilize-economic-resources-for-large-scale-projects-abroad-but-not-in-our-spanish-market/116606/ Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:23:59 +0000 https://thecorner.eu/?p=116606 The Corner

In an interview with Consejeros magazine, Sacyr’s coordinating advisor, Elena Jiménez de Andrade, explains that now “We have great capacity to win projects, a capacity that until now contrasted with a series of financial limitations and balance sheet size. However, in this strategic cycle, we are going to eliminate those barriers. That is why we have set an ambitious goal for 2033: to triple the value of our assets. We...

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“Mercosur is perhaps an idea that people have fallen in love with and are keeping because everyone is too embarrassed to liquidate it” https://thecorner.eu/interviews/mercosur-is-perhaps-an-idea-that-people-have-fallen-in-love-with-and-are-keeping-because-everyone-is-too-embarrassed-to-liquidate-it/115577/ Thu, 11 Jul 2024 08:50:38 +0000 https://thecorner.eu/?p=115577 The Corner

Fernando Gónzález Urbaneja interviews José Juan Ruiz, president of the Real Instituto Elcano and director of Redeia, in Consejeros, who states that “The intellectual prestige of pessimism is one of the characteristic features of Western civilisation. But, to give an example: in terms of CO2 emissions, everything may be in chaos, people’s perception may be that we have done nothing, but the European reduction in emissions is 32% compared to...

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“European funds are not reaching companies. There is total inefficiency” https://thecorner.eu/interviews/european-funds-are-not-reaching-companies-there-is-total-inefficiency/114606/ Thu, 16 May 2024 08:33:00 +0000 https://thecorner.eu/?p=114606 The Corner

Isabel Dutilh, director of Elecnor, Banco Alcalá and Millenium Real State explains in an interview with Mari Pinardo in the magazine Consejeros that “Europe has to have control of the funds and this requires a certain amount of bureaucracy, but in the end it is so much bureaucracy that it generates frustration and people give up applying for them”. Q – There are continuous and constant legislative changes, what do...

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“Spain has a good energy plan but if things don’t change, it won’t be fulfilled” https://thecorner.eu/news-spain/spain-economy/you-can-say-anything-you-want-on-paper-spain-has-a-good-energy-plan-but-if-things-dont-change-it-wont-be-fulfilled/113344/ Fri, 01 Mar 2024 18:00:47 +0000 https://thecorner.eu/?p=113344 The Corner

José Bogas, ENDESAS’s CEO, explains in Consejeros magazine that “295,000 million of investment is needed for the period 2021-30, and we have many years ahead of us when when we are not investing at this pace. Of these 295,000 million, 118,000 million are for renewables; 85,000 for energy efficiency, but almost nothing has been done so far; 53,000 for networks, which is more than 5,000 every year and we have...

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“In banking funds, there are sales targets and conflicts of interest” https://thecorner.eu/interviews/in-banking-funds-there-are-sales-targets-and-conflicts-of-interest/111266/ Thu, 05 Oct 2023 07:11:06 +0000 https://thecorner.eu/?p=111266 The Corner

Fernando Rodríguez| “The big picture of Indexa is that we aspire to be the leading independent asset manager in Europe” says Ramón Blanco, founder and director of Indexa Capital Group Q- What is the equity story or investor proposition of Indexa’s shares?A- What is listed is Indexa Capital Group, and underneath it hang three operating companies: Indexa Capital – a broker-dealer, the French insurance broker Indexa Courrier d’assurance and the...

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“An electric car in Germany today emits more CO2 than a diesel or a petrol car. That’s the reality, because 50% of electricity is generated with coal” https://thecorner.eu/interviews/an-electric-car-in-germany-today-emits-more-co2-than-a-diesel-or-a-petrol-car-thats-the-reality-because-50-of-electricity-is-generated-with-coal-2/110088/ Wed, 12 Jul 2023 08:49:34 +0000 https://thecorner.eu/?p=110088 The Corner

The CEO of Repsol, Josu Jon Imáz, took part on June 22 in a debate organised by the newspaper El Correo, and took the opportunity to warn of the hypocrisy, inefficiency and paradoxes of European energy policy.For example, in Spain it is forbidden – by law – to explore for and produce natural gas “and at the same time we are encouraging companies to bring gas from the United States,...

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