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Brussels Freezes 1 Billion European Funds to Spain for Not Raising Taxes on Diesel and Not Correcting Public Temporality

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The European Commission has decided to freeze approximately 1.1 billion euros to Spain corresponding to the fifth payment of the recovery fund for failing to approve the increase in the tax on diesel and not to digitize regional and regional entities, as confirmed by Community sources at 20 minutes.The total amount of the fifth block is 23.9 billion euros.According to Brussels, some 500 million of the suspension corresponds to the non-compliance…

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The European Commission has decided to freeze approximately 1.1 billion euros to Spain corresponding to the fifth payment of the recovery fund for failing to approve the increase in the tax on diesel and not to digitize regional and regional entities, as confirmed by Community sources at 20 minutes.The total amount of the fifth block is 23.9 billion euros.According to Brussels, some 500 million of the suspension corresponds to the non-compliance…

·Madrid, Spain
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The European Commission proposes a partial disbursement of the 23.9 billion of the fifth payment of the recovery funds due to the failure of the diesel tax and the digitisation of local authorities, although it returns 137 million frozen in the fourth paymentBrussels proposes to relax the conditions of the recovery plans because only 35% has been spent The European Commission will suspend the disbursement of 626 million euros in future payments …

·Spain
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The European Commission has decided to freeze Spain a total of €626 million in aid for not penalising abuses in the hiring of public employees, including health care workers on temporary contracts. An embargo that generally amounts to €1 billion out of the fifth tranche of the Recovery and Resilience Plan, valued at a total of €23.9 billion (8 billion in grants and €15.9 billion in loans) for the failure to meet three key milestones, highlightin…

On social media, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez celebrated the approval of the fifth installment of European funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, highlighting that Spain continues to lead the implementation of the plan in Europe. Read more]]>

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The Government will have an additional deadline to comply with the requirements of the European Commission.

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The Government has announced that the technical teams from the European Commission and Spain are continuing to work in coordination to complete the validation, in the coming months, of the pending milestones for the full disbursement of the fifth payment of the recovery and resilience plan. The European Commission approved the fifth disbursement of the Spanish plan this Monday, although it has frozen nearly €1 billion, as the Government has fail…

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Eldiario.es broke the news in Spain on Monday, July 7, 2025.
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