スペインの経済大臣のルイス=デ=ギンドは、スペインは欧州では第4番目の経済大国なのに、欧州中央銀行の理事会に代表を1人ももっていないとの不満から、ユーロ圏財務大臣会議の代表にオランダのジェロエン=ディスルブロエム(Jeroen Dijsslbloem)の任命を承認せず. 意地っ張り!
Guindos: “España está injustamente infrarrepresentada” en las instituciones
El ministro explica el rechazo al nuevo presidente del Eurogrupo en señal de protesta
España no está ni en el BCE ni tiene cargos de relevancia en los mecanismos de rescate
España, el único país que no apoya al nuevo líder del Eurogrupo
Claudi Pérez Bruselas 22 ENE 2013 - 13:10 CET
Guindos: "Spain is unfairly underrepresented" in institutions
The minister said the rejection of the new President of the Eurogroup in protest
Spain is neither the ECB nor have senior positions in the rescue mechanisms
Spain, the only country that does not support the new leader of the Eurogroup
Claudi Perez Brussels 22 ENE 2013 - 13:10 CET
Spain is the fourth largest economy of the euro but does not have a seat on the executive board of the European Central Bank. Spain has one of the largest financial systems in Europe but not represented in the banking and insurance authorities. Madrid has always had an important bearing on the Union-clearly in the case of the governments of Felipe González and José María Aznar, but at this time does not have senior positions in the European rescue mechanism or almost none of the institutions European Commission except with the vice presidency of Joaquín Almunia. Finance Minister, Luis de Guindos, surprised last night with a second cracking soon after their partners-rejection Luxembourg Yves Mersch in the ECB-and did not support the appointment of the new president of the Eurogroup, Dutchman Jeroen Dijsselbloem. Guindos has clarified this morning, having left yesterday without comment or explanation at the meeting of finance ministers, that this position meets Spain's dissatisfaction with the allocation of European officials: "Spain is underrepresented. The situation is not fair, "he said.
The Government stresses that the country contributes Like the other members in proportion to their GDP
Guindos said he was confident that in the future the lack of representatives "will go correcting and Spain will have the representation they deserve according to their economic weight, with the efforts and has shown solidarity with all eurozone "." There is a specific post but the procedure, the concatenation of situations, "he said, referring to the penultimate battle for the seat of the ECB, of which Spain went loser.
Government sources point out that, despite the tremendous economic crisis, Spain has contributed 25,000 million in loans to Athens, although Spanish banks had no exposure to Greece. And then helped to rescue Portugal and Ireland and has to cope with a contribution of 12% in the capital of the ESM, the European rescue mechanism: 9,000 of the 80,000 billion rescue fund will be Spanish, with which it is falling . "We contribute in relative terms exactly like the other, and in absolute terms only behind Germany, France and Italy. Hence Spain wants to make clear that dissatisfaction", Moncloa sources said.
The diplomatic offensive did not yield the expected results in the case of the ECB, in which Spain hoped to have the support of France. That support came not: Paris is not exactly in a strong position in Europe for its economic weakness. This time something similar has happened: when it seemed that Paris could make common front, side stepped by having virtually secured the presidency in single banking supervisor, in a textbook example of the sort of chess game in which just making the appointments.
Privately critical voices are raised against the inexperience of the new leader of the Eurogroup
Diplomatic sources explained that although this time, again, the vote was lost, the goal was to record the Spanish weight loss in the EU institutions: it had nothing to do with the fact that Dijsselbloem, despite being social , comes from one of the countries that form the hard wing of Orthodoxy in the Union, very agreeable to Germany. "It seems a right person. Spain will cooperate amicably with the new presidency. I am convinced that a president will be balanced, "Guindos said in relation to the need to find a meeting point between North visions, more focused on austerity, and the periphery, which require countries to creditors a turn with an eye on growth.
Privately, both Spain and some other countries also stressed that the new president of the Eurogroup lacks communal experience, not just awakens enthusiasm. No matter: the bias of the balance of power in the EU is currently arcadísimo. The policy follows the German diktat. The latest appointments leave a favorable correlation of forces in the north (although some countries, such as Portugal, has managed to get around and has a vice president at the ECB and the Commission presidency, Italy chairs the ECB and EBA, for example). Gone are the years when Spain was considered "Southern Germany" and had chairs with great responsibility here and there, in Foreign Policy (Javier Solana) or around the table more important at this time of fierce economic crisis: ECB .
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