Consejeros

27 Jan 2026

From Reagan to Trump: Towards a New Industrial Order

Opinion

Ricardo Santos || “His negotiating strategy allows him to clear the board and redraw the boundaries in ways previously unthinkable. And he does not seek to break with Europe but to rebalance the relat...
15 Jan 2026

From the Earth to the Cloud and from Plastic to Silicon

Opinion

Carlos Balado || “With a PER of 50, like that of Nvidia, investors assume that the US is willing to spend whatever it takes to impose its dominance on land and in the cloud.” Carlos Balado (Professor ...
14 Jan 2026

Second Year Trump

Editorial Opinion

“Regain the power of force. He who can, does. The risk maps and the priorities of governments and corporations need to be reviewed”. Fernando González Urbaneja Schumpeter, in the preliminary chapter o...
14 Jan 2026

A New Asylum Law

Agenda 2030

The upheaval of the geopolitical board regarding Venezuela is a good opportunity to remember that there are currently 377,809 people with Venezuelan nationality residing in Spain and more than 690,000...
13 Jan 2026

The Second Insolvency Directive: It seems that now it will happen

Opinion

J. C. González Vázquez || The Directive, which harmonises six relevant aspects of European insolvency legislation, must be approved in this first semester and transposed within 33 months. José Carlos ...
8 Jan 2026

Councillors: The Balance Between Remuneration and Independence

Opinion

“Finding the balance between qualification, dedication, remuneration and independence has become more complicated and more important than ever.” Antonio Polegre Jaime Sol Antonio Polegre and Jaime Sol...
7 Jan 2026

How to win the talent battle from the CNR

Opinion

“Diversity - which correlates with innovation - technological disruption and expectations of responsible leadership are transforming nomination and remuneration committees.” Olga San Jacinto Antonio N...
6 Dec 2025

Poor children in thriving environments

Agenda 2030

In the last issue we reported on several reports from various organisations that alert us to the growing inequality and socioeconomic exclusion in Spain. With high-risk signals, the particularly conce...
6 Dec 2025

The OECD congratulates Spain

Editorial Opinion

“With a not too gloomy fiscal outlook threatened, that yes, in the medium term. Hence their recommendations on the viability of pensions”. Luis Alcaide “The manufacturing PMI data for the eurozone com...
15 Nov 2025

Spain is doing well... the Spaniards not so much

Editorial Opinion

Fernando González Urbaneja “Spain is doing well” was the slogan with which President Aznar sought to qualify his eight-year mandate (1996-2004), at the turn of the century. The data supports his claim...
1 Nov 2025

Hunger over Rubble

Agenda 2030

The bombs have ceased in Gaza, and trucks with food have been able to enter after months with all access routes closed, but only on paper. After 18 days of ceasefire, it has been cancelled and reactiv...
1 Oct 2025

Spain under Sánchez... and Gaza

Editorial Opinion

“Once unemployment benefits have ended, the unemployed do not return to the labour market. With other benefits and the black market, they maintain their income levels”. Luis Alcaide Epidemics, floods,...
1 Oct 2025

Refounding Hispanidad

Agenda 2030

In the context of Hispanidad, it is worth leaving Spaniards to their nitpicking over whether their official language should be called "Castilian" or "Spanish." Irrelevant fuss for the 660 million Span...
11 Sept 2025

It’s housing…
stupid!

Editorial Opinion

“The announced measures are not even a band-aid. Every year there are more housing shortages and prices (for rent or sale) keep rising. We need land, cranes...” Fernando González Urbaneja In Spain, th...
11 Sept 2025

Is Spain racist?

Agenda 2030

A significant debate in present-day Spain is the level of racism in its population. It is a contention that will mark the immediate course. In light of recurring indignities, one can infer that, in ju...
8 Jul 2025

Tourists

Agenda 2030

The legitimate aspiration and desire of every human being to know other worlds becomes increasingly burdensome every day. The cost of transport and accommodation is rising; there are greater bureaucra...
2 Jul 2025

Economic growth and corruption

Editorial Opinion

“Relevant and well-meaning citizens demand the resignation of the president. Step aside and appoint a substitute”. Luis Alcaide Without credible policies, a market economy, the Spanish one for example...
15 Jun 2025

(Not) Learning from Mistakes

Editorial Opinion

“The curse of financial crises tends to repeat every third of a century. The new generation does not remember what happened, why it happened, and how to prevent it.” Fernando González Urbaneja Through...
9 Jun 2025

Data that Screams

Agenda 2030

There are perceptible signs of a change in Era, such as the escalation of intolerance: human predators are intensifying their ferocity against other humans. It is saddening that, in this century, they...
11 May 2025

Not everything is darkness

Editorial Opinion

“Surprise in Congress. Aitor Esteban's voice is now feminine, Basque-Spanish and European, intelligent and luminous.” Luis Alcaide The Iberian blackout has been completely resolved in 12 hours. The li...
11 May 2025

Forbidden to forbid

Agenda 2030

Paradoxical. Humanity seemed to have reached its highest levels of prosperity and tolerance after millennia of hardships and disturbances of all kinds when troubling signs of a degrading regression ap...
10 Apr 2025

Convulsion in global trade

Editorial Opinion

“Opens the opportunity to question the imbalances in the services and financial balance, where their technologies act as true predators”. Fernando González Urbaneja It is difficult to explain the tech...
10 Apr 2025

The Challenge of Writing

Agenda 2030

According to UNESCO, approximately 2.2 million books are published worldwide each year. In Spain, 80,000 were published in 2022, report distributors. Digital publishing is on the rise. Such a vast num...
14 Mar 2025

The Upsides and Downsides of Exporting

Editorial Opinion

“The Spanish economy, one of the most open in Europe (40%), will have to open up to new markets in Asia and Africa.” Fernando González Urbaneja Trump's second presidency (Trump 2.0) has brought additi...
2 Mar 2025

Bunkers

Agenda 2030

In times past, those persecuted in their homeland found solace elsewhere. Where to take refuge now, when intolerance is on the rise? The United States, a promised land for the poor and dissenters, is ...

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