Eduardo Barrachina (1978-2025), image of Hispanic-British friendship | Economy | EUROtoday

Eduardo Barrachina, president of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in London, died yesterday displaying in his struggle towards the illness of the identical magnificence, braveness and consideration for his associates who characterised his life. It was a tireless driver of business relations between the 2 international locations he beloved, the United Kingdom and Spain, an excellent columnist, famend clubman and passionate traveler. If we measure that foam that is still of a life for the model that leaves in associates, Eduardo died in Pleamar. London is mourning, not solely the Spanish neighborhood, which worshiped him, but additionally the British, particularly his companions of the Travellers membership.

Eduardo was born on July 23, 1978 in Alcoy. He spent his youth in Barcelona, ​​the place he completed the legislation race. In 2003 he traveled to New Delhi to work in Fox & Mandal’s workplace. India was his third love after Spain and England, he traveled extensively with the subcontinent the place he leaves quite a few associates.

He settled as a lawyer in London creating an excellent profession within the Linklaters workplace. Over time he fell in love with this metropolis with out forgetting his beloved Spain. When the laborious days of the monetary disaster arrived, extended within the Spanish case for the independence problem in 2017, he stepped ahead to defend the popularity of our nation, each in collaboration with the embassy and straight within the British media and in his administration within the Chamber of Commerce, which he presided since 2018.

Anticipating the implications of Brexit, redoubled the exercise of the digicam and managed to beat the complicated transition, to the purpose that, 4 years later, Spain has gained market share and its cumbersome surplus within the United Kingdom is a pillar of its industrial stability. We owe him a digicam that’s, with permission from New York, probably the most highly effective in Spain on the earth, related to the best stage with the British authorities and firms via a powerful public agenda. It is important to say amongst its initiatives the monetary discussion board or the funding barometer, so profitable that they are going to be reproduced in different cameras of Spain on the earth, or the sequence Women at Work that helps Spanish professionals in London of their totally different areas.

Eduardo was an amazing defender of range and inclusion, making the Chamber of Commerce exemplary in that regard. In collaboration with the Embassy, ​​he organized the primary LGBTI+ occasion at that diplomatic headquartersProud of our Pridewhich already goes for its third version and has turn into a reference for the Spanish neighborhood of this capital and likewise for British politicians and businessmen. On March 6, squeezing his forces, he attended the celebration on the Embassy of International Women’s Day that helped manage, receiving the applause of the greater than 200 attendees. It was his final public look.

Man of gathering and memorable speeches, Eduardo stood out as a superb speaker and essayist, an everyday within the pages of the principle Spanish newspapers along with his elegant and cultured pen. It was a reference in Hispanic-British gatherings, the place it stood out for its deep understanding of the realities of the 2 international locations. He mixed his Hispanic patriotism with a honest love for the British and their traditions, expressing in his individual that friendship between the 2 international locations that has led us to share nearly 1,000,000 residents.

Eduardo, you allow once they flourish in all of the squares of Belgravia cherry bushes and camellias, when spring seems within the corners of the one that you love St James with the promise of a brand new season That you’ll not see. Your silhouette disappears stairs above the Travellers and with it an necessary a part of us. That the poets of the international locations you like, audit with their “Stop All The Clocks, Cut Off the Telephone” and particularly Lorca are instructed by goodbye: “And you above, on top, green and cold / forget and forget the vain world / delicate Eduardo, my friend.”