Economy promises that half of the ‘NextGen’ have already arrived in the economy

The Minister of Economy, Carlos Body, has revealed that the Executive has already resolved more than 34,000 million from European funds. It is about 55.9% of the 69,528 million that the European Commission has allocated to Spain to date and which ministry sources consider “transferred to the real economy.” According to his calculations, the number of beneficiaries amounts to 600,000, “with a stable rate of 1.5 billion euros each month.”

Economy figures -in addition- in 61,558 million in funds called, 88% of the total of the transfers included in the first part of the Recovery Plan. The announcement coincides with the publication of a new tool – called Elisa – that allows, from today, to monitor the implementation of the ‘Next Generation’accessible to all citizens through the Recovery and Resilience Plan website.

Those of Carlos Corpus thus respond to the criticism that since the arrival of European financing has not stopped questioning the lack of transparency regarding the data that the Executive has tried to periodically transfer to parliamentary headquarters. The tracking system, Eliza, joins the data mining programs with which Moncloa has tried to collect and transfer information to European authorities over the last two years. “It is a tool that complements the rest of the tools we already have and puts the focus on the final contractor,” Corp announced during his speech at the day. ‘European Funds. Keys and next steps’organized by KPMG.

The head of Economy refers – specifically – to the COFFEE system, whose operation was discussed by the mission of the European Parliament who a year ago demanded more accessible information, as Elisa now promises. “The Government must guarantee that information is published in a more accessible, structured and rapid manner,” demanded in February 2023 the German Monika Hohlmeier, leader of the delegation in charge of supervising the tracking of community financing. During recent years the ‘NextGen’ audit system has suffered several problems.

The complexity of the COFFEE software has caused difficulties in the data dumping by the autonomous communities and city councils, which have prevented the Executive from offering exhaustive information on the process of deploying the funds. The Ministry of Finance recognized a year ago that the programs were still being “filmed” and that they needed “certain adaptations.”