What’s happening at the CEOE?

MADRID The Board of the Confederación Española de Organizaciones Empresariales (Confederation of Spanish Business Organizations, the equivalent to the UK’s CBI) held its monthly meeting in February, and is due to have the March meeting any day soon. On the agenda for debate were a number of routine issues, plus the postponement of debate on the organization’s new statutes until April. What was not on the official agenda but must surely have come up under the Any Other Business section, or at least in private conversations before and after the meeting, is the damage the CEOE is undergoing thanks to corruption scandals in its ranks. (A more detailed article on this subject will soon be available at SpainInformer.com)