The Director of World Bank Economic Trends, Andrew Burns, announced on June 9 at the launch of the Global Economic Prospects Report 2011 , that Spain "is a very serious situation, a situation that is echoing the Anglo-Saxon press a long time (and exaggerating), especially in the Bible salmon WASP, The Financial Times (special supplement included with this week). Not to mention The Times, which in the edition of June 8 began with this headline from its correspondent in Spain "uncollected garbage, hospitals in emergency mode and schools closed ..." of course it was a story in reference to the strike officials, but that had to read the bulk of the story, what matters is that it appears that the Spanish situation and is equated to the Greek. To round off the article yesterday in the New York Times, which said that the Zapatero government is doing everything possible for Spain to win the World Cup, and serve as an "escape" to the desperate situation in the country.
I will not be the one who denies that we are experiencing an alarming situation. Yes, definitely alarming because there are so many millions of families who experience the anxiety of unemployment is tragic, alarming for little or no confidence in the future we have, alarmingly political blindness of those who make policy in this country, and its short-term vision of the Policy. Alarming, because it takes great sacrifices to do that still nobody knows how to tell, we have to do a restructuring of our production system and so far I see no progress, no signal, and alarming because I do not see a united, walking toward a clear goal : the path of economic and social growth.
That said, I must also say that at all accept that this is a debacle, as we want to paint the Anglo-Saxon press (and their affiliates, speculative currency markets, it is they who are making profits at the moment). It was in Spain, where the crisis erupted, or was in Spain where we had to inject huge amounts of public money into the system, as in the U.S., UK or Germany, to give clear examples. In Spain, there has only been problems with two boxes, and sets an example for the international financial system, our system of financial provision of the system.
Having said that, after the orgiastic injection of public money in the international financial system, at a cost 0, if zero, because all they are asked (I hope) is that I paid back without interest (did you make?) Now is that we have a problem of sovereign debt (not only in Spain) and to solve it you need the money from those he saved from bankruptcy (which has not been done in history, with no production sector on a global scale) obviously they are going to give market price, ie interest. Result: The same guys win, despite his nefarious efficiency and lack of global ethics (in fact the same "managers" that led to the crisis, are now traded sovereign debt, which disgusted system!).
But back to the beginning. If it is harmful to the financial system and international public systems depend on the grade of "independent" of three rating agencies, which obviously have their own interests and also operate as agents in the market to win customers, more pernicious still have a global banking structure, far from making its currency transparency works on account of the prevailing Anglo-Saxon financial majority.
On yesterday, the World Bank falsified data on Spain, claiming a debt level that we have, we are the 14th and below the EU average, so to establish a ranking officer (to formalize the famous PIGS of Anglo-Saxon press, it must be remembered that it is no official acronym of any international official agency) touted as the EU-5 (Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy). After hesitating hesitation about why, wanted to justify it as a risk classification between debt and deficits, but is that not the case. In this sense they are most dangerous combinations in the UK (!) And France, that of Spain.
My outrage is palpable. At the end of the day for the markets to have the 9th economic power within range of speculation is a dish rather than greedy, and that it will provide institutions and the Anglo-Saxon press that takes years sharpening his scythe (I think it never exceeded the Spanish companies were shopping in the 90s and beginning of the century by Britain, America and the U.S.), is merely the result of a long-awaited vendetta.
We play, work hard and paddle together, that is the only recipe out of this. Ah! and it is time to stop for entrepreneurs.

Dear Reader / a, you're a victim of a "hook", the title of this post, so you pay attention to the content. Of course innovation is, but if true, that it is often more a development, a leap in technology or procedures, that innovation understood as such. We live in a society where innovation is being consecrated and the worst is that this concept is banal and impoverished with a simplicity, that this writer is beginning to be worrisome.
Perhaps of all forms of innovation. the least exploited and the most trite, is the Social Innovation ( which I wrote a post , for them), but now I am concerned, is what makes our country the true economic engine, the fuel that allows you to competitive countries from the rest. In this regard, it should be noted that innovation in the field of R + D + i, it becomes more urgent than ever. It will depend on our social models and competitiveness compared to countries with emerging economies in the heat of the battle of competitiveness, are willing to leave behind civil rights and labor, in order to win the battle of mere economy.
So we are talking about the survival of the models social and economic development (the "welfare states") of Old Europe, against those who seek to challenge the hegemony of the current rule, ie USA. and the constellation of states of the OECD.
On the title chosen to make a point I would like to not seem as "sensationalistic." Innovation is difficult to make and further develop under a common economic and productive pattern for the whole of society. Suffice the following example. A couple of years (I remember) I read an interview with one of the chief engineers of the Airbus Consortium. Yes, the aircraft industry, one of the most innovative in terms of R + D + i refers not only to business level, but at the level of scientific cooperation. Desengáñense himself put it in a nutshell of how following: it is true that aviation is one of the sectors that incorporate technological leaps to society, making planes safer, more efficient fuel consumption, more comfortable and more capable of handling them, but think following: since the first flight of the Wright Brothers until the A380, all share something in common avoiones have fuselage, two wings, a rudder and flaps and ailerons. "Innovation in the aviation sector?, Where? continued the interview, with particular emphasis on the big problem is that aeronautical engineers make the planes, based on what they learned in the universities, populated by engineers for engineers who learned earlier, that is transmitting the same patterns of learning and so that tradition is very difficult to reverse, so that means it is hard to innovate in this field of aeronautics.
What follows from this, it is clear, to innovate is to unlearn, and therefore this requires training systems flexible, highly adaptable and very open minds and change systems, so these raw, we are unable to view the post scare in Spain has been in the First Report on the Capacity Index from 2009 to 2010 Information . Spain has been placed in 28 th place with 60.3 points, just above Chile. This first ranking is leading Sweden, Finland and the U.S. with 82.2, 77.8 and 77.5 points respectively.
What precisely measured by this index? For it is a measurement system that attempts to explain the direct relationship that are in the way of innovation among the political, institutional and social issues that arise. The index allows for specific recommendations from the level of development of each nation and its political regime. The specific factors that analyzes the report are the role of institutions, education and social inclusion, the quality of governance, macroeconomic management and public administration, the existence of economic opportunities and the growing importance of ICT and innovation in increasing the efficiency of the development process.
Innovation is understood this report as the basis for prosperity and it is so strategic to shaping public policies which requires largoplacista vision of development and not a vision marked by electoral periods and surveys popularity of governments. I sincerely hope that this report by the European Business School and directed by Professor Augusto Lopez-Claros , be carefully studied in Moncloa, Genoa, Ferraz and other centers of political power and financial system. In this game we are playing the future destiny as a social collective, and thus do not fit means partisan.
The question is, are we ready as a nation to take that leap and I am a lifelong optimist, but this time ...

He said Airbus chief engineer for some time, it is difficult to innovate in aviation, building on the idea that since the Wright Brothers made the first flight, all aircraft share a common trait: they fuselage, wings, rudder and tail. That and all aeronautical engineers have been trained in the tradition of his former professors and the universities themselves (what is called corporate inbreeding).
Challenging thus paradigms is the basis for innovation and for the aviation industry is a difficult question, so that when produced often results in a competitive jump the practitioner. And this is the hallmark of Airbus since he took off his first model the Airbus A300 in the '70s. Since then he has been a long chain of technological developments, which have made this European company that is not only competitive, but the alternative to Boeing (including the time when giant acquired the historic Seattle McDonnell Douglas ): the A 320 family (with the A318, A319 and A321), the appearance of the A340 and a new avionics cockpit controls supplied in a form of "fly-by-wire" and of course the giant A380 that has reinvented the long-haul flight.
On the Airbus Consortium bid for its military division - Airbus Military - the first step was to create the first entirely European game, one of the most sophisticated equipment available, at the height of the F35 American or Russian Su 27. This project is fully in development, such as the tanker variant of the civil A330 for conversion and refueling in flight, but now needed to complete the development strategy of the A400M , the first bet would be in Europe for himself as a military transport alternative to the C130 (Hercules) U.S. and its variants and the project had no luck germanofrancés that the C-160 Transall.
The A400M is a new concept of air travel, which gives more capacity to the military logistics, especially for the deployment of peace operations and civil disasters, equipped with a completely redesigned avionics such operations and based on operational experience of the civilian models of the Airbus family.
Our country has a special relevance, since Seville was the city chosen to install the final assembly line, putting the level of the plants in Toulouse and Hamburg. Seville and Cadiz, Puerto Real in shape, also a strategic hub for the development of business R & D in the aeronautical sector, in addition to the plethora of business support services that are necessary for final assembly of each of the assembled apparatus.
Therefore it is urgent for the political agenda of Moncloa and the Junta de Andalucía, to reach an agreement on the additional costs of the project as defined at the beginning (there were many voices who warned that the fixed price per unit not was right, was a clear strategy to attract buyers, which does not work). Airbus is ready to take 6000 million and 5200 million calls for other countries are assumed by participants in the project. Spain, France and Germany are willing to assume part of l additional costs, further cutting the initial order. In the Spanish case would go from 27 to 22 aircraft, but the UK (who else), Belgium, Luxembourg and Turkey are reluctant.

The stakes, at Spanish level being a point of global aviation in the coming decades and European level to be a manufacturers guarantee for future projects (Brazil, Embraer and China with a host of companies are beginning to be a serious threat the aviation market as well.)
Anyone have any doubt that what is at stake is the image of R + D + i aviation specialist in the field more competitive: the military, over the next two decades.
The stakes are to be or not be in this stake and Spain can not lose this bet.

The Prime Minister, this morning the lines of what it claims to represent the Spanish Presidency for the presidency in the EU. To do this, and before the full EP in Strasbourg, he made a speech strongly oriented towards the audience who listened to him, MEPs, a very special audience, as has traditionally been ignored by the rest of the Community institutions, but with the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty and strengthening the role of the institution that represents the power of the European Union citizen, has given new impetus.
It was a speech that has had four basic areas: the economy , the implementation of the new institutions (President of the Union and External Action Service), the EU's external relations with the world (certainly the most ambitious of the institutional agenda for these six months) and social policies imbued with the concept of European citizenship. "
As it was logical to assume the economic, which has been the bulk of the intervention. Three issues have focused this part: the need to establish a European-oriented Social Pact, the European commitment to the development of the "electric car" and this in turn framed by the strategic planning of EU energy policy, which proposes the creation of a common energy market, "with a common regulatory framework for all member countries, which also result in gradually reducing energy dependence on the old continent, compared to our competitors.
It has also opted to create a "common market digital", which results in the creation of a fully digital Europe at the end of the decade and to reduce any barriers to electronic commerce in order to become more competitive. Not to mention a new "common market" has called for completion of the Bologna process in education to get a European University, to act collectively against their larger competitors, country to country because we do not have sufficient strength to act independently in an increasingly globalized market.
Of course, it has an impact on what represents the new Lisbon Treaty, to encourage the European institutions, stressing that we should not miss this opportunity, before this new momentum. Ie the possibility of an "efficient governance."
Finally made a review of the most important objectives of the EU's international agenda, especially the Summits with the U.S. and Latin America, and the implementation of new strategies in the Mediterranean area, ending with the value which should be European citizenship in all these events. Only with an involved and informed citizens about the EU can move forward, for it proposes to increase the visibility of social during this presidency and has proposed the establishment of a "great European social pact" without specifying any item on this subject except the memory of the possibility of Popular Initiative in Europe and the activation of the "European Order of Protection" for abused women.
We can see that there are many, varied and ambitious challenges of the agenda. Against those who say there are no targets, it will be difficult to refute. Another thing is how the presidency and achieve elapsed to complete the proposals are official.
I am optimistic, (being vigilant) and what do you think?

There are many attacks that are getting the Zapatero at the start of the Spanish Presidency of the EU . Presidency becomes unprecedented and it is the first time the EU after the entry of the Lisbon Treaty has a unique voice in Europe: the President of the Union. Since the beginning of this new journey, we were many who doubt how it would be addressed this strong community that was born: the EU President , the President of the European Commission and the current President of the Member State holding the presidency every six months of Council.
Well, first capsize clear: President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, cleared the doubts from the start, Van Rompuy is the President of the European Union, blunt. Let me remind you dear reader would have happened if the European premiere of the Presidency of the new treaty would have happened within the UK Presidency Italiana (give me chills) or in the worst case, the Cheka.
In another sense, and apart from the constant attacks of the Financial Times and The Economist against Spain with the German press back, strengthening the latent anti-Spanish "serious" and "brainy" British press, where permanent questioning the role that Spain could play in the current European arena, are being fed a series of disturbing factors. On the one hand, in this January 2010 China has already overtaken Germany as the leading exporter and the U.S. as the world's first automobile market. During 2010 the Asian giant could surpass Japan in GDP figures, making it the second largest economy after the U.S. Over the next four decades, Europe will lose weight dramatically, and in the international arena will lose power against rising powers like Brazil and India. In fact, although at present appearances to the contrary, Europe will need in that time have the workforce of 70 million new immigrants. All these data are reflected by Felipe Gonzalez, in advance of the report of the Reflection Group chaired supplied by the EU in the coming weeks.
Therefore, and although there are many issues that need urgent attention from the EU and its institutions in the corporate strategy to be put in place to deliver the Lisbon Treaty, the real crux to clarify at this early page in the history of Europe, is to address urgent economic measures to cut solid pillars which are capable of developing the EU Strategy 2020 , to avoid a failure such as outdated as the Lisbon Strategy .
Therefore the main action lines for the EU Presidency must be aimed at reinforcing measures to strengthen the economic union of the EU:

We live in turbulent times of social and economic nature which undoubtedly have an answer in our geopolitical environment "much more Union, more strength."
For Europe to be more competitive in industrial, technological and economic will have an opportunity to advance the progress of their peoples and the mantimiento of our welfare state. Therefore need to strengthen coordination of economic policies and advance common economic union, in order to deepen the internal market integration concerning Energy, R & D & I Digital Market.
Why we must strengthen the economic union? Basically three main issues:

Finally, against the doomsayers who speak ill of the Zapatero government action on the international scene, it was noted that the Spanish Government who asked Sarkozy to convene the Eurogroup during the previous French Presidency to take joint action in the European financial system . It was the first time they took such action within the EU. The meeting took place in Paris on October 10, 2008 , this was undoubtedly a milestone driven from the machinery of Spanish diplomacy in Europe, and certainly gave an excellent background to our representatives to successfully face the challenges posed to the Presidency .