"In June 2021, the European Commission and the European Council approved the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Mechanism of the Next Generation EU funds (better known as European funds). This decision has meant an injection of 750,000 million euro to be distributed among all the member states of the European Union, of which 144,000 million correspond to Spain.

The Spanish state requested 69.528 billion euro in the first tranche, the part of direct transfers that do not generate debt. It is quite likely that it will request the next tranche in 2023, which could mean another injection of almost 80 billion euro in the form of a loan, to deploy a series of investments promoting “green and digital transition”.

To access their share, the executives of the different countries presented strategic plans delineating ways out of the crisis within this “green and digital” agenda. The Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR) is the document drafted by the Spanish government to access these almost 70 billion euro. Some 28 percent of these funds are to be allocated to “digitalization”, one of Europe's main proposals for economic transformation. But absent from these plans to transform and boost the economy through the injection of these funds is any analysis of the negative consequences that this “digital gamble” may have on the world of work.

This report addresses issues such as: what exactly is digitalization? How will it affect our economy? What about our labour rights and levels of employment? How is the distribution of these tools throughout our territory and productive framework being assured?"

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