The last 'betrayal' of Joaquín Almunia to the Government. He

According to what leaders of the Spanish delegation in Brussels explain to El Confidencial Digital , there is “ some indignation” in the Government with Joaquín Almunia , considering that the European Commissioner “did not tell us the whole truth” in the negotiations held last summer to request the bailout to the bank. In those conversations, held in the first days of June, Luis de Guindos conveyed the message that Spain could not afford, in the middle of the year, to have a deficit three points above what was expected in January , so the 100 million loan They should not be included in that scale. Almunia , Competition Commissioner and therefore one of the members of the European Commission who facilitated the rescue, personally assured the Government that this money would not count as a deficit , neither then nor at the end of the year. However, on Monday, April 22, the Eurostat report included verbatim the figure of 10.6% deficit in Spain in 2012 , a figure that was ratified that same day, and publicly by Durao Barroso, president of the Commission. European Union, which explained that this data included the bank rescue. 

Including the bank rescue as a deficit would trigger the risk premium” The sources consulted by ECD explain that in the negotiations held with Almunia last summer, one of the arguments put forward by the former secretary general of the PSOE, and on which Rajoy, South Korea Phone Number  Guindos, and the Spanish delegation in Brussels agreed, was the inappropriate to include the rescue in the deficit estimate, due to the difficult situation that Spain was going through . Specifically, “all parties agreed that, with a risk premium above 600 points , it was absolutely impossible to include the 100 million euro loan, because it would trigger the premium even more and lead Spain to a bailout. from the State to the Greek ”. For this reason, Joaquín Almunia guaranteed the Government that neither then nor at the beginning of 2013, when Eurostat takes stock of the deficit of all Member States, would credit to Spanish banks be included. A promise that ultimately has not been fulfilled . The Government fears an increase in the cost of debt The Government and the Spanish delegation in Brussels explain to this confidential that "if in the summer it was very harmful to give the deficit figure with the bank rescue, things have not improved", so it is feared that the announcement of the deficit figure 10.6% of the deficit has a negative influence , externally, on the Spanish economy. 

Specifically, the sources assure that "a figure like that can cause an increase in the price of Spanish debt , with higher short-term interest rates than those that have been occurring in recent months." Furthermore, "the inclusion of this deficit, and not the 7% announced by the Government and accepted by the European Commission, may generate greater distrust among foreign investors, something that was already warned about last summer."Four months after that return, which has allowed him to be released on supervised release, thanks to the third degree of prison, Carromero also continues to avoid speaking to the Spanish media, even with those who gave him greater support during his captivity. The only statements about the incident, which caused the death of anti-Castro dissidents Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero , were made by Carromero to the American newspaper Washington Post, something that has bothered not only the Spanish Press, but also the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. . As El Confidencial Digital has learned , García-Margallo is surprised by the lack of courtesy of the Madrid politician , and also upset that he now maintains in public a version different from the one he signed in Havana.The general secretary of the PSE externally maintains a cautious and conciliatory speech .