
Spanish PM, Pedro Sánchez, announced that he was going to reduce IVA on electricity from 10% down to 5% after having initially refused to do so.
Electricity prices have been crippling, more so for heavy-consumption businesses than homes, but even so, families will struggle with these summer bills.
The price of electricity in Spain during this crisis has risen by 52%; double the European average during the same period.
Well over a hundred farmers belonging to the various irrigation associations in Almuñécar turned out to protest in the Town Hall Square. Some sources put the turn out as “several hundred.”
The government has carried out a reform of the energy market with a new law that pleases nobody; not the consumers and not the big utility companies.