Ana Botín calls for Europe to show ‘more solidarity’ in response to the coronavirus crisis and asks for more support for businesses to protect employment and to enable a faster recovery

Banco Santander is holding its 2020 Ordinary General Meeting at the Bank's headquarters in Boadilla del Monte.
 

Banco Santander’s Group executive chairman, Ana Botín, today called on Europe to lead “a faster and more coordinated response” to the COVID-19 health crisis and asked for greater support for businesspeople “to keep jobs in an environment where activity has plummeted.” She said this is the way to recover more quickly from a health crisis which is resulting in “economic and social distress on a scale we have not seen in generations.”

Botín spoke today at the Group’s Annual General Meeting, which approved the 2019 annual results. Due to mobility restrictions applied as a result of the State of Emergency declared in Spain, the event took place for the first time in Boadilla del Monte (Madrid), instead of the city of Santander, where the AGM traditionally takes place, and with shareholders participating entirely remotely.

Here you can see and download high resolution photos from the 2020 Ordinary General Meeting held at the Bank's headquarters in Boadilla del Monte.

Here you can watch and download videos from the 2020 Ordinary General Meeting held at the Bank's headquarters in Boadilla del Monte.