“We, to what is important”, Pedro Sánchez often says even in the midst of the worst political storms that shake his mandate. “Long lights”, the president of the Spanish Government usually claims, to try to prioritize what he considers important for the future over the urgency of a convulsive and restless political present.
Also immersed in an intense electoral agenda, Sánchez defends at his rallies the new taxes on financial entities, energy corporations and the great fortunes to combat the effects of the inflationary crisis and the war in Ukraine. A “social democratic recipe” against the crisis that the PSOE has accredited as one of the most positively valued by the public. According to its internal surveys, 78.3% of society highlights it this way.
And Sánchez expressly confronts these initiatives with the “protests” of the presidents of Banco Santander and Iberdrola, Ana Botín and Ignacio Sánchez Galán, or with the decision attributed to Rafael del Pino’s “personal interests” to move Ferrovial’s headquarters to the Netherlands . The public statements to the president of the CEOE, Antonio Garamendi, are also recurring: the head of the Executive urged him again, this Saturday, to negotiate with the unions to “share” the profits of large companies with their employees workers.
This image of a clash with the business sector, however, contrasts with Sánchez’s economic agenda, and this is how they highlight it in Moncloa. This week it will be evident again, since the head of the Executive will have an “overturned” agenda in the policies and projects of reindustrialization and investment attraction in Spain, in some “decisive” moments, as they point out, in the global stage.
And also because of the Spanish presidency of the European Union that begins on July 1, in which the open strategic autonomy of the community club is one of Sánchez’s big bets due to the clash of colossuses between the United States and China, in an even more urgent strategy as a result of the effects of the Russian war.
The head of the Executive will start the week on Monday by accompanying Felipe VI to a visit to the Airbus plant in Getafe – the third most important European aerospace facility -, on the occasion of the centenary of the foundation of Aeronautical Constructions (CASA), precursor of the current Airbus, the European aeronautical giant. In the afternoon, Sánchez will receive the top executive of Airbus, the Frenchman Guillaume Faury, in Moncloa.
And then, that same afternoon, Sánchez will also hold a meeting in Moncloa with the executive committee of the ERT (European Round Table for Industry), which brings together nearly 60 managers of large multinational companies with European headquarters in the industrial and technological sectors. Among them, José María Álvarez-Pallete, chief executive of Telefónica, who is also part of this European industrial forum.
After attending the Spanish-Portuguese summit in Lanzarote, Sánchez will resume his reindustrialization agenda on Thursday, with a meeting in Moncloa with the automotive sector, to accelerate the electrification of the automobile projects, where it is planned that the heads of the sector’s main associations, Anfac, Faconauto and Aedive, are there.
And on Friday, once again with the King, the Prime Minister will attend the laying of the first stone of the Volkswagen gigafactory in Sagunto, in the Valencian Community.
All this after Sánchez visited last Friday the installations of the MareNostrum 5 supercomputer, at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, where, in addition, he announced the hiring by Navantia of more than 1,500 direct jobs, which the Government assures that will guarantee activity in the centers of Ferrol, Bay of Cadiz and Cartagena in the coming years. And that on Saturday he attended in Huelva the presentation of the Miura 1 launch base, the first entirely Spanish rocket, developed by the Alicante company PLD Space, which will be launched into space in the coming months.
