Confidence that an agreement will be reached
This is how the general director of the Chamber of Spain, Inmaculada Riera, expressed herself during her speech at the conference “Brexit, challenges and opportunities for Spanish SMEs”.
“The link between Spain and UK It is not going to break and we are all sure that the European Union will reach an agreement in which neither citizens nor companies will be seriously affected by the new situation.”
This is how the general director of the Chamber of Spain, Inmaculada Riera, during his intervention in the conference “Brexit, challenges and opportunities for Spanish SMEs”, Organized by the Santander Spain, the Chamber of Commerce of Spain and the economic newspaper Expansión. The Secretary of State for Commerce, Xania Mendez, closed the day.
The general director of the Chamber of Spain, Immaculate Riera, was in charge of moderating the debate table that brought together the representatives of the parties involved in this negotiation process: on the Spanish side, the economic and commercial advisor of the Spanish Embassy in London, Alvaro Nadal; by the United Kingdom, to the economic and financial aggregate of the United Kingdom Embassy, Bill Murray; and on the part of the European Union, the director of the Representation of the European Commission in Spain, Francisco Fonseca.
Previously, the director of Institutional Relations and Communication of Santander Spain, José Juan Pérez-Tabernero, welcomed the participating companies and the principal researcher of International Economics of the Royal Institute El Cano, Frederick Steinberg, referred to the current context and the future of economic relations between Spain, the United Kingdom and the European Union.
Political will
All participants have agreed to point out that both the European Union such as United Kingdom They have demonstrated the political will to reach the best possible agreement so that neither citizens nor companies are seriously affected, although there are still 11 months to prove it.
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