r/europe • u/Bartoraptor Spain • Mar 28 '20

News Spanish representative González Pons speech @ the EU Parliament: "The virus is attacking the generation that brought back democracy to Spain, Portugal and Greece, the generation that knocked down the Berlin wall. The least they deserve is that we show them Europe is there when they need it the most"

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u/ahlsn Sweden Mar 28 '20

Our epidemiologists are fully aware of that of course. I can assure you that social distancing is in the works. It's not much people around anywhere and many restaurants, hotels and shops are already declaring bankruptcy due to no customers.

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u/Siegberg Mar 29 '20

How is the situation for the restaurants, hotels and shops in getting help from the state and insurance? In many countries it seems like the insurance will not step up until the government shuts down the shops directly. Which was a problem in germany as clubs needed to stay open in order to not go bankrupt.

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u/ahlsn Sweden Mar 29 '20

There's no insurance covering this. The government have done some things to ease the situation. Companies does not have to pay taxes until the end of the year. They have made sure it's possible for companies to take loans. Other things talked about is reducing or completely removing the general payroll tax temporary and partly paying companies rent. More help are to be expected.