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Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is to present a plan to cut administration costs by €8bn at the next European Council on June 27.
Savings will be made by reducing the number of official procedures and an end to overlapping competencies in central, regional and local administration.
At the same time, the Spanish government has rejected Brussels’ demands for an increase in VAT, a higher retirement age, and further labour market reform, notes the daily.
For La Vanguardia —
Rajoy could not turn up empty handed dressed in a shirt that says “no” to European recommendations. That is why he decided to present his most cherished package: the reform of public administration [...] and with it a pledge that Spain is serious about a clean-up of public accounts that will inevitably result in the downsizing of public administration.
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