Any foreigner who disembarks in Spain in these weeks trying to understand how the country is, has a high probability of ending up in the psychologist. You will hear a powerful voice telling you that we are recovering and another that states that we are bankrupt. To the traditional low self-esteem of the Spaniards – incomprehensible to the outside world – is added that internal pain that the opposition suffers if things go fairly well. That unemployment drops or that Social Security contributors increase is a reason for satisfaction for some, but joy not shared by catastrophic Spain.
The truth is that, despite whoever weighs, Spain is bustling with activity. There are no rooms for so many meetings. Last week, to take a sample of events, we attended in Madrid some magnificent jornadas de sling on the necessary training of employees in digital skills, as a lever for transformation; we participate in a European Congress of the Demographic Challenge in Valencia de Alcántara -large convocation in the line of Portugal- and also in the meetings of the Mobile Week in Ourense. Yes, in Ourense, not in Barcelona. At the time, Vigo, national capital of Christmas lighting, it celebrated its lighting on Saturday (the mayor, Abel Caballero, stretches the festivities from November to mid-January, to the greater glory of local commerce and tourism). And from Seville, it is noticed that who want a table in a restaurant, or reserve in advance, or stay on the street.
Spain is abuzz with post-pandemic activity while the sixth wave of covid that is hitting Central and Eastern Europe is feared, its origin attributed to the refusal to vaccinate a part of the population. Here we are champions in vaccines, with 90 percent of the target audience supposedly immunized; but all precautions are little and we are going for the third dose.
To take into account the spiral of social protests. Farmers, ranchers, the metal of Cádiz and others. This is hardly said, but in all the activities mentioned – at Fundae, at the Demographic Challenge Congress, at Mobile Week and many others – a part of the conversation always revolves around the European Next Generation Funds. And surely also in the gatherings of those crowded restaurants. Spain dreams of these and other Funds without even knowing how they are requested, nor if they are already committed, nor if the conditions demanded by Brussels to release them will be met. Such is the hope raised that if they arrived diminished, or arbitrarily distributed, the popular disappointment – and outrage – would be maximum. High risk.
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But the debate on funds contains an essential requirement: the need to change the production model. Expect no comment on that in the usual political scuffle. The superficiality is alarming because it never alludes to fundamental questions in which the future of the country is at stake.
Rather sprouts permanent disqualification looking for gimmicky headlines. See the recent meeting in Valencia of five women, political leaders, with Yolanda Díaz, second vice president of the Government at the fore. Pablo Casado he referred to the meeting as the “radical coven,” that is, a witch thing. Meanwhile, the political spokesman for Vox, Jorge Buxadé, He spoke of that meeting as “a charitos pajama party” and defined Yolanda Diaz as a “Chanel communist.” A great level of analysis, as you can see. Not a word about the change in the production model.
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