The body maintains that it has resolved calls for 53.646 billion with European funds

The Minister of Economy, Trade and Business, Carlos Cuerpo, has maintained that calls for proposals worth €53.646 billion in European funds under the Transformation, Recovery and Resilience Plan have already been resolved, of which 40% has reached small and medium-sized enterprises. The minister appeared this Monday in the Congress of Deputies to provide the updated data for May 2025, where he stated that 68% of the funds have already been transferred to the "real economy" by being allocated to beneficiaries "with names and surnames," a scheme in which small and medium-sized enterprises have a significant role.

The Ministry has detailed the Digital Kit and the Consulting Kit as two of the projects financed with these resources, from which 730,000 SMEs have benefited with €2.6 billion. In addition, 567 projects have been implemented in 29,940 social rental homes to make them energy-efficient; as well as the €990 million distributed to the autonomous communities within the Moves III Plan. The State maintains its leadership in these policies with calls for proposals worth €47.488 billion, of which 70% have been resolved . The autonomous communities, for their part, have issued calls for €21.498 billion with a resolution rate of 65%, and city councils for €10.209 billion, having resolved only 64%, according to data shared by the Ministry.

Likewise, the Minister of Economy reviewed the allocation of the €19.1 billion awarded through the Strategic Projects for Economic Recovery and Transformation (PERTE), including those for electric vehicles and the chip industry, the circular economy, and the new language economy. In total, calls for proposals for €25.6 billion have been issued, of which a portion remains to be allocated, while the possibility of accessing loans for more than €17 billion remains open.

These explanations have been described as insufficient by the opposition, which has demanded more detail and clarity when sharing the data from the plan launched throughout the European Union to respond to the crisis generated by the coronavirus. "They have changed the expected impact of the plan up to four times compared to the initial reports. We have an obligation to know this information , and you have an obligation to provide it to us. We don't want any cosmetic changes or to miss the opportunity that Europe has sent to Spain, which, due to your obscurity and incompetence, we are about to lose. There is one year left, and the risk is at its highest," criticized PP MP Milagros Marcos Ortega.

This party has asked the minister if he is in a position to guarantee that the country will receive the full fifth payment, after carrying out a partial reform of the tax system and failing to muster sufficient support to raise the diesel tax. The party has criticized him for having spent less than 30% of the funds with only one year left to spend them. The party has explained that only non-reimbursable transfers, which amount to nearly €80 billion, have this deadline, and that the loans that can be requested are intended to continue the reforms that are expected to boost GDP by 2% and that the resources will boost it by 0.4%.