Post by account_disabled on Mar 6, 2024 1:27:05 GMT -5
(and this has been stated) the maximum support of prisa , that is, the support of its media: el país, cadena ser, cuatro, cnn+, etc. The newspaper directed by javier moreno publishes information signed by luis r. Aizpeolea in which it states that the president of the government yesterday informed his three vice presidents and the hard core of the executive that he is not planning a government crisis in the short term . Zapatero, according to this news, intends to go through this stage of channeling major reforms with his current team, although he does not rule out that this ministerial remodeling will be carried out at another time .In recent times, these are some of the austerity policies applied by the ministry to save : --promotion of videoconferences instead of meetings with physical presence. Videoconferences are made from rooms specially set up in the ministry for this purpose, and even when the people involved (for example, from moncloa and exteriors) are in madrid . --official cars, until now, followed a guideline for replacement: one hundred thousand kilometers or five years of use , at which time each head of legation, in the case of consulates and embassies, requested the change. Now it has been decided to exceed these limits by other undetermined ones. --embassies have cut their maintenance costs.
Some of them have been forced to cut costs by more than 50% , in matters such as gardening, furniture, air conditioning, alarms, etc. --to the different legations, the ministry only sends what is in stock until it runs out . For example, if you order cutlery or Special Database a coffee service from an embassy, it can be sent to you, if there is one. But towels or sheets that have to be embroidered or gadgets that have to be purchased are not sent. --diplomats are not obliged to travel “low cost”, but they are obliged to travel in tourist class, an order that has even reached the majority of ambassadors in practice. The ministry insists on finding the cheapest route, even if it involves making stops. Sometimes the diplomat is urged to rethink his flight route to make it cheaper. --the minister himself has changed his flying habits . By tradition, on long trips and routes through several countries, he used one of the two large airbus available to the government for this type of trip. Now, however, he favors the use of the falcon aircraft fleet , which is much smaller in size and has a lower cost per kilometer. Foreign affairs, in short, adds and continues its policy of cuts.
In this sense, it is worth remembering that embassies and consulates saw their budgets reduced by 25% - see it here - to organize the national day receptions, ambassadors have also seen their representation expenses cut and diplomats their allowances, and the presidency of the eu - see it here - has also been especially austere in advertising and merchandising.On february 5, esperanza aguirre made headlines after, once again, an open microphone captured an unfortunate comment about the renewal of the caja madrid board. " I think that we have had the immense luck of being able to give iu a position, taking it away from the son of a bitch," the president said without knowing that her words were public. The microphones were open for a couple of minutes, enough to capture the conversation that aguirre had with his 'number two', ignacio gonzalez , about the madrid banking entity. There was talk of candidates for the council, of arturo fernández –president of madrid businessmen, who “wanted to be president of the chamber of commerce”-, of javier lópez madrid, of carmen cafranga and of mercedes de la merced.