31% increase in foreign money raised by the government

Catalonia is still an attractive pole Investments produced from abroad Despite the doubts and difficulties caused by the epidemic. The Generalities It managed to capture during the fiscal year 2020 a total 480 million euros Through its general investment agency, an amount 31% superior Regarding the outbreak of the Coronavirus. This is derived from the data presented this Wednesday by the Minister of Business, Ramon Tremosa, At a press conference on ACCI’s activity. The direction of these investments has changed over the years, shifting from the traditional driving sectors of the Catalan economy, such as the automobile, to those associated with new technologies. That is, money is transferred from the traditional factory to the joint business.

“Despite it being a very complex year, we can provide a very promising result for the Catalan economy,” the Minister said. Well, in 2020 ACCIÓ achieved its fourth best investment balance since its launch in 1985. From the general agency they attracted 77 projects Productive investment, which created or contributed to the maintenance of a total 3422 jobs. The main exporters of these investments were France, the United Kingdom and Japan, which of the three accounted for nearly four in ten euros raised by ACCIÓ. Tremosa ruled out that the “ epidemiological impact ” did not appear in the 2020 investments (closed or decided in previous years), but it may affect the results of next year. He stated that “expectations are good, and he announced that the achievements of the largest part of future investments will be assigned to the landing of a company.” European funds.

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The main destination of these payments was the creation or development of companies specializing in new technologies and digital transformation. So much so, that one in every three euros was seized from ACCI, compared to one in ten euros that went straight to the car. From the Ministry of Business, they expressed their willingness to encourage the transition towards a Catalan economy that relies less on cars and more on sectors such as Telephony, Making Video game, The Logistics services Oh no chemistry. “They are the sectors of the future […] Which we intend to promote, ”ACCIÓ CEO declared, Joan Romero.

The company is also aware of the weakness of the Catalan economy in terms of the absence of corporations or multinationals with their decision-making centers in Catalonia. Well, despite the investments that have been made, the matrix of the majority of companies allocating resources from abroad remains in other countries. Something with obvious flaws, as was recently noted in cases like case AprilThe multinational company of Japanese descent preferred to strengthen other latitudes, and this resulted in the closure of its three plants in Zona Franca, Montcada i Reixach and Sant Andreu. As well as losing about 20,000 jobs, between direct and indirect.