Aznar: «The sustainability of the debt is worrying in Spain, however the issue is political» | EUROtoday

Are you saying that the foundations of present financial progress additionally date again to the previous? You had been in authorities for eight years, after which the socialist Luis Zapatero arrived.

We had created 5.5 million jobs, we entered the euro, we achieved a 64% progress in GDP. We have launched liberalization, privatization, competence in Spain. It was one other coverage. Now the target is to regulate firms, to not be extra aggressive however to distribute more cash, to not search stability to have extra alternatives, however to maneuver ahead with debt, the deficit. There are nice political variations between the Spain of earlier than and that of now.

In a gorgeous essay by the Spanish economist Víctor Pérez Diaz, “The Spanish lesson”, printed in Italy by Il Mulino in 2003, two authoritative Italian intellectuals, Michele Salvati and Ilvo Diamanti, defined why Spain after Francoism had managed to develop into a mannequin for Europe. In Spain, every of the earlier seasons takes maintain with out denying the one which preceded it. The previous is remembered by mutual settlement to beat divisions, whereas in Italy the previous is dramatized and condemned. In quick, you Spaniards had been in a position to keep away from everlasting political battle.

Until at present. The downside with Pedro Sanchez is that he broke this political angle. Sanchez broke the insurance policies of the Spanish transition, the constitutional consensuses, the dialogue between the People’s Party and the Socialist Party. He selected a radical coalition. Sanchez has the only goal of remaining in authorities, and makes use of it solely to final and to divide the Spaniards.

At the start of this interview you mentioned that one of many three causes for Spain’s financial progress lies within the arrival of migrants. They are accountable for the rise within the inhabitants. He will at the very least agree with this alternative of the federal government which has additionally introduced that it intends to regularize 9 hundred thousand migrants between now and 2027, exactly to proceed boosting the economic system and assure Spanish welfare.