The former mayor of Madrid and former Minister of Justice, Alberto Ruiz Gallardón, defended this Thursday, November 14, that Spain needs “ideological cohesion” because, in economic terms, the competitiveness of a country “rests largely on its legal security or, which amounts to the same thing, on the maintenance of its regulatory framework.
“If here in Spain there is an electoral process every time, like energy policies, defense policies, industrial policies have not been agreed… Each winning match breaks with the regulations of the previous one, Spain ceases to be attractive for investment”, underlined the president of Ruiz-Gallardón Abogados, for whom the global investor “not only” wants to know what rule governs it today in November 2024, date on which, as he illustrated, he makes the decision to come to Badajoz or go to Singapore.
In this sense, he wants to know if this rule will remain in force “for a sufficient period of time” to make his business profitable. investment and the “only” way to guarantee this, he stressed, is for major policies to be agreed between the parties that, historically, have alternated the Spanish government.
The former mayor of Madrid and former Minister of Justice spoke in Badajoz during the IV Regional Family Business Congress, organized by the Extremadura Family Business Association.
A conference in which he makes the presentation “A vision of the economic and political situation in Spain” in which, as he explained, it will be limited to the economic consequences of the new global geopolitical situation after the recent elections in the United States which once again led to Donald Trump for the presidency, which has “very important” consequences for Europe and Spain.
Thus, he mentioned a new situation in which the pricing policies put forward by Trump “will undoubtedly harm us”, in addition to establishing policies on the part of the United States in which it requires its partners in the Atlantic Alliance to invest in defense spending “which will force us to increase our contribution percentage in relation to our GDP Domestic product, and all this is going to mean more public spending” and, therefore, either other public benefits decrease or the tax burden increases.
The president of Ruiz-Gallardón Abogados added the new “consolidated” situation of China leader in Asia and the rest of the world and whose presence in Africa is “impressive”, and that the conclusion is that Europe “must react” and “realize” that it is uniting “not only” politically, but also in a “very “particular” economic or that it will do so. an “observer” or a “stone guest” between the great economic struggle that, in the decades to come, America and Asia will maintain and the two great powers that are China and the United States.
For this, it is necessary to increase the cohesion of the European Union and its powers vis-à-vis the Member States, as well as the mechanisms to make it a “true single market”, while regarding national policy, he considered that it influences the company and that the Spain has an “urgent” need for two elements of cohesion, one territorial because, in connection with the previous reflection, “it makes no sense” that the Spanish country, which is “small” like France, Italy or Germany can try to move forward alone in a globalized world, apart from its EU partners.
“What is even more absurd is that there are certain autonomous communities in Spain that think they can make a beneficial trip for their citizens outside the Spanish nation. Therefore, all this false talk about independence that has been sustained over the past decades must be broken, “not only from a historical point of view, from the point of view of national cohesion, but also from an economic point of view,” he said. he pointed out.
And, as he asserted, “it would be a catastrophe for the Catalans, for the Basques or for any other autonomous community, if they separated from Spain and were condemned to no longer have any importance.”
