The reduction of VAT from 21% to 10% on electricity and fuel announced a week ago by President Pedro Sánchez to compensate 20 million households and three million businesses in Spain with 5,000 million euros has not satisfied a large part of the economic agents in the Islands. Apart from the uncertain effect that international tension will have this season on tourist activity, the war conflict in the Middle East has hit freight transport, construction, agriculture, the self-employed, and other strategic sectors of the Balearic Islands hard.