Small and medium -sized companies are faced with a big problem during great uncertainty in the tariff policy that Donald Trump began all over the world. SMEs and self -guided are the fundamental part of the Spanish business fabric: they are more than nine out of ten jobs. European funds served as expanding their business, engaged in new events or innovations with high additives, although there are still many things. These problems were the main part of the debate “Future of SMEs: Global Problems, Local Solutions” that occurred during the development of Eldiario.es with a group of newspaper partners.
“It is true that large companies have received the most benefit from European funds. That is why we urge European funds to devote ourselves to the fact that they were born: the cessation of inequality, that all citizens have the best living conditions, and not to large companies, to win more than the market, ”said Eduardo Abad, the president of Upta.
A more critical vision was on the table Maria Jose Landaburu, General Secretary of the Union of Associations of Autonomous and Entrepreneurs. Landaburu emphasized that “funds were not always so successful, or by their own management of the country or the companies themselves. Since we joined the EU or the importance of companies or the execution of funds were the best, many funds should have been returned.
Among other problems, Landaburu noted that “only 20% SMEs, which are in the municipality of less than 20,000 inhabitants, are digitized. It is necessary to continue to use the funds, we are at first alone: there are still many territorial and gender differences, this is socially unstable, and the means should serve this. ”
Before the anti -Evropeian winds, starting with ultra -right formations, Christobal Cano, General Secretary of the Union of Small Farmers (UPA), emphasized that “European support is necessary for young farmers to start walking. This is a way to put an end to anti -European speeches who are trying to fit into the field. They help us open the door of new marketins. ”
“The Spanish agrarian sector would not be so prosperous without European funds.” But he also wanted to clarify that “it cannot be that the PAC funds are becoming a source of inequality. The agricultural sector is not homogeneous, it is necessary that AIDS is of social origin, so that large farms or investment funds do not remain, which are completely placed in agriculture. ”
For his part, Pilar Roch, General Director of Ametic, explained that “although there is a long way, small enterprises have an excellent opportunity with means devoted to digitalization for export using large platforms. You need to make a jump. ”
Roch asked to reduce the bureaucracy, and the procedures of these grants were facilitated, because “too many difficulties, many documents. This is difficult, and time is necessary, training is necessary, and sometimes it is not worth it for SMEs. ”
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