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Spain’s Socialist-led coalition government has secured another extension of the state of emergency, which will now last until 24 May.
Congress’s approval for the latest extension of the crisis powers comes after days of bitter rowing and frantic negotiations.
The disease is being controlled and Spain is beginning to recover, but we must be careful and we need the legal and constitutional tool of this state of emergency.
The UK will only consider support for individual aviation firms as a last resort, the housing minister Robert Jenrick has said.
British aerospace and aviation firms must look at existing government schemes and self-help measures before individual packages for companies are considered, he said.
We want to support the aviation sector in any way that we can.
We’ve said before that we’re willing to consider situations where we would support individual firms, but obviously only when they’ve worked through the existing government schemes and other ways in which they might be able to raise finance commercially, or through existing shareholders.
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