Spain has the opportunity to become a very important player in Europe not just in energy production but international relations with north Africa and latin America. I really hope they play their cards right and become a power house. I was in Spain a couple a weeks ago and their infrastructure is definitely ahead of north America.
Every deal with northern Africa means a loss in Human Rights, Spain abandoned saharauis, it means a weaker Agriculture or Industry. Only entrepeneurs close to the spanish government benefit from that. Not spaniards.
the future of Spain lies in Hispanoamerica not in EU. Anglo-Saxons have been able to tear us apart with their lies, but we never had been as big as we were together.
Renewables currently supply around 40% of our total energy needs. But instead of promoting nuclear energy to support renewables we are importing gas from Africa, America and also Russia from intermediary countries. We could be cleaner and less dependent on fossil fuels but we choose to import gas from countries that don’t respect human rights.
Yes, when you have money in spain you can learn languages in every single school for people who have high incomes , when you are poor you have problems because your teacher are waiting to go to the beach in weekend.
@@pabloboronatrivera5214 then you have good luck but you cant compare public school with schools who cost 600 euro per month, and you learn English and German since 5 years old. Maybe you have to take a look of PISA test results
Such a great interview. Minister Calvino is well spoken, knows her stuff and delivers confidence in the responses. Great to hear about the recovery in Spain and continued importance of their role in the upcoming year in the leadership position.
Just a shame that they will get spanked at the next elections. The government has ignored many pressing issues, especially when it come to young people.
It s quite sad that spanish are voting conservative alt right fascist who doesn't have a clue of English nor had a proper job in their lives, like Feijoo or Ayuso or Abasscal
Yes, Spain, please do. It's time for Southern Europe to overcome the reputation of contributing less to Europe and having weaker economies. Spain has a ring of low population land around Madrid that is perfect for solar energy production. Fusion energy could also be produced there in the future.
For that the process for construction of these power plants needs to be made easier. And making anything easier is completely alien to any Spanish government.
What do you mean by "easier"?. They are as good or better when performing internationally and domestically too. Which countries do it easier and how they achieve it?
@@Wilhelm-X924 es qué hay que creer nos lo que somos tenemos todos los recursos y gente híper mega preparada - no hay que creer lo que los países del norte dicen que somos - solo falta mirar a la historia para saber que el sur y sobretodo España puede hacer mucho más.
This lady has the best non-native English of any politician I've seen outside of Scandinavia. Really impressive. Edit: I see quite a few other people already said this. 😂
A very knowledgeable and useful explanation as regards Spain's seriousness for solving the energy crisis that is ever present the Spanish economy minister has explained very nicely her government's involvement in this regard. Thanks Madam for your presentation.
It s quite sad that spanish are voting conservative alt right fascist who doesn't have a clue of English nor had a proper job in their lives, like Feijoo or Ayuso or Abasscal
Wow!!!Her level of english is really impressive Im used to our german politicians not even being able to end one sentence in english and she is smashing it
spain has already proved it has the infrastructure for a majority renewable energy grid. in addition, it is also a country full of tons of unique culture whereas western europe is perhaps a bit one dimensional (and very old); it would be fantastic to see spain take a larger role in the eu
@@ordemeprogresso727she was born in A Coruña Spain. Her last name is Calviño so might have Portuguese ancestors. Her father worked for Spanish tv. Nothing Nordic there.
Ok as a German I agree that being dependent on Spain is much better than being dependent on Russia…… The only geopolitical risk I see is if we want to discuss the by us occupied territory of Mallorca.
Yes, Spain is on its way to being the battery of Europe, the green energy superpower of Europe. perfect geographical position, 300 sunny days/year, large windy plains, biomass, large hydroelectric, excellent ports prepared for export and an ultra-modern, meshed and digitized electrical network deployed throughout the country. Investors recognize it as such, Spain is in the same situation as Norway when it discovered in the 1980s that it was floating on an oil stock market. Happy for Spain🇬🇧❤️🍷🇬🇧🇪🇸
@@T.Davies ok good point about the "new resources" but expecting Spain to become a Scandinavian country in the middle run is a bit of a stretch. Don't get me wrong, would be happy for them
@@KrlKngMrtssn My point is in the medium/long term, Spain has a mediocre education and its policies have always been characterized by talking a lot and doing little, every long journey is made with a first step. For the first time, I believe that the two major parties and Spanish private capital do not want to miss this opportunity and the commitment is very strong, a project for the country. one thing leads to another, more income, more opportunities, more money to invest in education and other aspects to improve. a new illusion that at the same time benefits the EU and stops the few eurosceptics. I believe that Spain deserves this opportunity, to show that it can be an important player in the EU and gain self-esteem.
I hope she exploits her talents, and I hope Spain exploit their land for clean energy and energy brokers have a new reason to see our energybills grow once more.
Thank you DW for giving international news that often isn't covered as widely in the US. I envy European stability in comparison to the US and wish I could live there or in Japan (sadly not to easy to move to other countries without skilled labor or a job with a high salary). I hope someday I can leave the US. Progressive Europe is what I wish the US was more like, but we are too divided:'( I miss the days when we lived in relative peace.
En España no es todo como lo pinta ella hay mucho desempleo, Los precios han subido casi un 12 porciento más que el años pasado,la renta percápita ha bajado . Y el gobierno gasta más de los que ingresa. No hacen más que subir impuestos y los perjudicados en todo esto Somo las clases medias. Es el país Europeo con más políticos. Te lo dice uno que lleva 38 años viviendo en España.
Wow! Interesting comment from the other side of the Atlantic Normally most Americans solely comment on how EU will collapse tomorrow and everything we’ve done the last 70 years was wrong
God help us! No! Look beyond her ability to speak english! You should look at the real numbers of her government in terms of unemployment, energy costs, etc.
@@miguelangelsimonfernandez5498 I know your country's unemployment numbers for decades... they suck and you simply refuse, PP or socialists, to copy what works abroad. So the bar is really low there and... well you get the idea. Energy costs: Both major parties have screwed up that one partially as well, but I'm under the impression thinks improve there. Again - both parties.
@@Walterwaltraud they can easily improve because they can not be worse. Both main parties are corrupt to the marrow. They have different traits but the result is similar because they refuse to manager and only raise taxes, increase the numbers of civil servants, and give the two main labour unions (CCOO and UGT) a power they do not deserve. Hiring a worker in Spain is a gamble and a nightmare.
@@Walterwaltraud the cost of renewables per kW is not competitive compared to hydro or nuclear. Spain blew Up last year 100 dams in exchange for EU subsidies and at the EU bureaucrats who in their inifinite wisdom decided they know better.
Pues ya ves que si. Lo que es imposible es un inglés que hable español a ese nivel. La diferencia es que nosotros somos muchos más amables y generosos a la hora de valorar vuestro nivel de español. Diferencias culturales, supongo.
@@JulesXu asumes que soy inglés? Soy español, lo que pasa es que acostumbrado al nivelazo de políticos como Rajoy pues... No he dicho que me sorprenda que un español hable inglés bien, me sorprende que un POLÍTICO español hable inglés bien jajaja Edit: tienes razón en lo que valoramos muy bien un nivel de español mediocre comparado con el nivel que exigen los ingleses de inglés o los franceses de francés. Como tu dices, diferencias culturales, supongo...
I love that on DW there seems to be a friendship between many of those being interviewed and the interviewers. It just raises the quality of the already high quality journalism DW does.
Probably the best economy minister Spain has ever had, specially because she's not a politician, but a technocrat. It must be said that the previous ones left the bar low (corruption cases, even convicted of misappropriation). Thanks for the video.
Usted no vive en España verdad? Si algo caracteriza a los gobiernos socialistas, como en el que actualmente ejerce de Ministra, es por la ruina que dejan. Y no solo por no saber gestionar, sino porque los casos de corrupción en su partido son abundantes. Infórmese mejor y no hable de oídas!
@@27GLA pues resulta que soy español y vivo en España. No voy a entrar al trapo con usted, solo le diré que me estoy refiriendo en concreto a esta ministra y no al gobierno en general. La realidad es que los ministros de economía de nuestro país tienen un historial nefasto, mientras que esta señora es una persona respetada en Europa e incluso por la oposición en España, precisamente porque no viene estrictamente de la política sino por su trayectoria previa en la comisión europea. Dígame un caso de corrupción de esta ministra y le daré la razón. Un saludo.
100% agree. As I wrote this Mrs. Calviño was elected the new president of The European Investment Bank (EIB). Such a shame for Spain as she has been indeed the best economy minister we ever had.
Wave energy doesn't generate that much power. The largest wave power facility I've heard about is only around 3 MW. A single offshore wind turbine can generate more than double. It'd be far more feasible to invest in wind than waves.
@@SmilingNinja wind power only works when it's windy. We have lots in Scotland. But they are pushing tidal power twice ah day every day. And we have the fastest moving bodies of water round the northern isles. What ever work's for each country. We obviously can't do much solar power Hahaha we only get 1 day of sun per year
@@bck481 True, but there are places offshore in Spanish and Portuguese waters that are very windy almost every day. Wind power makes far more sense than wave power if we want to generate a lot of clean, renewable energy.
The fact she studied economics, like Spain's president, does not make her a competent and knowledgeable professional. She's the daughter of a relevant spanish socialist who ended up in Brussels studying at expensive schools and doing top tier networking with Europe's top bureaucrats.
I hope so! With the right policies applied, it shouldn't be difficult thanks to the incredible natural advantages we have, like the great climate and weather :)
I wish but there is way too much red tape, it's difficult to start a business, you get charged for everything when you aren't even profitable yet and it is difficult to navigate the bureaucracy without lawyers and other experts so you end up paying even more money. Add to that that there is little investment in tech not just from the public sphere but also private. There is little capital and many end up moving their businesses to the UK, Netherlands, Germany, Nordic nations and if they can to the US to get things going. Spain has definitely improved a lot since 2008 primarily under the reforms of Rajoy that cut down on bureaucracy but there is a lot left to do. Rajoy had the chance with his majority government and two terms to do a lot more but he failed to either because it wasn't in his interest or he didn't care to. I thought Calvino as VP and Minister of Economy and Digitalization that we would see more efficient government bureaucracy, at least for business creations, but the whole digitalization hasn't really manifested at least not in the way I imagine it would. We shall see how things improve.
Using Spains natural resources in form of geography sounds great. Tourims have helped Spains economy a lot in the past so why not these new modern geographical assets?
I disagree, tourism only has brought us misery, pollution and gentrification. As a spaniard I hope we find another ways of diversify our economy and reindustrialize our country as soon as possible. Investments in renewable energy seems a good way to start the change.
Everyone is welcome in Spain. Tourists as well. But we need to invest more on research and find the way of exploding our natural resorces of lithium, rare earths, natural gas and others, in an enviromental friendly way. We also need legal security for investora. Spain has all the rest necessary to attract investments.
She destroyed no less than 100 hydroelectric dams last year, effectively reducing distributed water reserves. The only real geographical asset they count on is the sun and tourists.
Great idea to get renewable energy from Spain for Europe! They are renewable energy powerhouse with even greater potential for expansion. Infrastructure can be worked out to benefit the people of Europe and rebuild the regional economy.
@@coronaphone710 but if we could transform Europe into an almost-free energy region (which can be done with renewable energy), and applied the right policies (not too difficult to apply, and not too big changes), we could bring lots of industry here!!
Spain is nowhere near to supplying renewable energy for a number of reasons. The grid is not ready to supply that energy, it is way more expensive than France's nuclear, there is no concurrent market within Spain to sell it to. Her English is good and that is about all one can say nice about her. The real commitment to her words and her politics actually make energy costs 40% more expensive than in Portugal who basically buys that energy from us, go figure!
انا من السعوديه واقول اسبانيا 🇪🇸 كموقع افضل موقع باوربا. وهي تتوسط بين اوربا والشرق الاوسط. ولها امكانيات كبيره مستقل منها 50 بالميه فقط. كالزراعه والطاقه وبما اني من السعوديه وندرس التاريخ العربي باسبانيا. بالمدراس ونعرف مدنها ووديانها وانهارها. وعلاقه اسبانيا بالشرق الاوسط. قويه فهي القادره على الربط بين الشرق والغرب والاسبان علقتهم مع العرب قديمه ولا يمكن لاسبانيا ان تكون دوله عاديه. ابدا. بحكم علاقتها مع دول الخليج العربي كالسعوديه والامارات وقطر والكويت وعمان. الدول الغنيه هذي تستثمر في اسبانيا وتدعم اسبانيا بالنفط والغاز والبتروكيماويات وجلب الشركات الاسبانيه للعمل في هذه البلدان لدعم الشركات الاسبانيه ولكن على اسبانيا. ان تفتح الاستثمار لمواطني الدول الخليجيه لكي يستثمروا داخل اسبانيا بالزراعه والعقارات لان التسويق لاسبانيا والاستثمار فيها ضعيف في الخليج العربي يجب على الاسبان التسويق لانفسهم لان اغلب هذه الدول تستثمر في بريطانيا وفرنسا والصين وامريكا. ودول شرق اسيا. وجنوب شرق اسيا والدول الخليجيه عندها صناديق استثماريه. كبيره تملك تروليونات الدولارات يجب على الاسبان ان ينفتحوا نحوا الشرق. ❤
I acknowledge that her English is very good! However I live in Spain and we all know this woman. It just so happens that elections are coming up and her party is at a very high risk of not being re-elected. So what I see here is an attempt to make everyone believe her government has been a successful one and that her government has managed to lower unemployment rates. This is false, people in Spain still struggle to find jobs with a decent salary here (unless you work in IT). The truth of the matter is that Spain could have been Europe’s energy hub a long time ago but all the different political parties were busy collaborating with energy companies, getting paid by them and making sure that didn’t happen.
As all politicians she's selling their supposed achievements. However, I do hope the right wing (there's no chance they won't win) keep this energy plan in place. I think it's a good oportunity. I haven't heard a plan that makes sense for this country since... well, never before, tbh.
Spain has it big from a Geopolitical point of view: gateway to Latin America and North Africa. EU should take advantage of it to create much closer relations with them. From a Geographical and strategic perspective it lies at the Straight of Gibraltar, one of the busiest marine routes in the World. I feel Spain’s potential is underdeveloped.
Gibraltar belongs to the United Kingdom, all the potential remains with them, after Spain is a very passive country to be a leader, Mexico is the country that leads Latin America
@@eltecnico9541 Is this satire? Mexico has no say in the internal matters of other spanish-speaking countries. You are joke. Any latin american reading your message is gonna have the laugh of his/her life. Don't deceive yourself. And UK has a little base in the istm of Gibraltar, but they do not control the Straight of Gibraltar.
The Spanish government may have realised that climate change (Global warming) is going to have a significant negative impact on Spanish agriculture and tourism industry. Faced with these changes in climate, it would not come as a surprise to find that the Spanish are trying to make a virtue out of, what would otherwise, be a climate disaster. If you are going to suffer from prolonged burning hot summer's, you might as well harness as much of that energy as possible, and sell it, in the hope of making up for the loss of agricultural exports.
@@valevisa8429 it is not the proliferation of solar panels that will destroy Spanish agriculture, it is the very long, hot, summers that will make growing anything very difficult, particular, as water will be difficult to find, even for drinking. Covering the land in solar arrays to generate energy to sell maybe the only source of revenue. The mid latitudes are going to be depolulated, as temperatures rise.
@@valevisa8429the land around Madrid is agriculturally very unproductive. The ground is very stony and has terrible quality. It’s much better to put solar panels there and combine it will agriculture. It will actually result in less wasted water. Additionally it’s not like many people live there. We produce too much food in Europe, what we need is more cheap energy to drive our industries.
Kenz... For free what a laugh, nothing in life is free you must live in cloud cuckoo land...You mean big profits for the rich toffs etc etc.. Tony Cuenca
Hydrogen won't be significant in ground transportation, because of the inefficiencies. But it could have sensible use cases for shipping, and long-haul air transport.
@@cameron6770 The efficiency of electrolysis is 70 to 80%. The efficiency of transporting the hydrogen to the fueling stations is hard to estimate - it's very dependent on how much can go in a truckload, and how far it has to go. But all the energy expended in transport should be added in. A fuel cell is about 60% efficient. In this scenario, hydrogen is used as an energy-storage and transport medium, and it functions at very low overall efficiency. It's very cheap to transport electric energy using wires, and EV batteries have efficiencies of 90 to 95%.
Spain is betting on renewables, France does the same with nuclear while Germany burns coal and gas in the meantime, I really hope those countries manage to come up with an integral solution to their energy sources dilemma in the near future, one that benefits all of the EU instead of pushing and pulling against each other to get their way, and they better do it quick unless they want to keep fattening the pockets of the USA and other oil/gas exporting non-EU countries like Norway, Algeria, etc.
Nuclear is not renewable. Germany reduces coal, oil and gas significantly during the last 20 years they pushed solar and wind. Let's not forget: Germany started with almost no renewables.
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Mrs Calviño is one of the greatest politicians Spain have ever had. But for some reason the general public doesn't see this, and they just focus on voting candidates without even a knowledge of English or an international perspective at all. I don't think Spain will get any better without politicians doing what Calviño is currently doing. Let's see 🤞
Hello, I'm Spanish and I'm just here to say that Calviño's english is better than what I spected. English has been truly a complicated topic for our polititans for a while but it seems that that thing is changing.
I am from Saudi Arabia, and I say to every Spaniard, you are in the middle between East and West, and Spain has taken enough taxes from the West to head towards the sun, where there is oil, gas, petrochemicals, minerals, green and blue hydrogen, money and business in the Arabian Gulf. Open your country to the East. Investments will bring you hundreds of billions.
Great minister, she´s brilliant. The comparission from economic crash 2008: AWUFUL (the right PP was governing also, and they put the pressure on the middle and lowers income people, and cut taxes on the rich ones, yes, can´t believe that...luxury articles for example get a reduction on taxes) but books, baby diapers, etc, went up on IVA...). In the other crises (covid one) Spain is recovering, growing up and you can feel recovery already, but in the last case was managed by this lady ideas (PSOE party).
They already have the tap to Portugal’s water supply. Damming rivers when it’s dry and opening valves when it’s wet. Spain is massive and largely empty . They could be a people hub too , taking full advantage of all those ‘classic renewables ‘.
As far as I know about Italy (very little) the south is really behind the north, right? Maybe the south could/should take Spain as a model, what do you think??
Nope, entrepreneurs have a ton of taxes so trying to lauch a bussiness in Spain is extremly dificult. Others countries gives money and tries to help the entrepreneur that is creating jobs for other people, here we don't.
😂 we pay way over the price for energy in Spain we could just change to solar panels ah but no all of the ex ministers ect. are all heads of the energy companies here
If you are accusing them of corruption and you have evidence to back that up, then the Spanish courts should have a say on that! But if your claim is true, they would be motivated to increase the role of Spain in the European energy market. More energy production in Spain would mean greater profits for them and lower prices for Spaniards. Your analysis of the situation is clearly faulty.
There's nothing to stop you installing solar panels on your house - in fact the Sanchez government is offering you grants of up to 40% to do so. However you're right that the revolving door between government and the boards of the electricity companies gives them undue influence. You only need to look at the current Spanish law on selling the energy your PV system produces to the energy companies to see it. The EU requires that excess energy is bought by the electricity companies at least at the wholesale price - in Spain this was watered down after lobbying from Iberdrola and Endesa to allowing electricity companies to offer a credit against that part of your electricity bill which relates to the supply of electricity. Which is fine until you consider that for half the year any PV system that has a battery component will probably not take any electricity from the Grid. So in June, say, you have sun all month - you draw nothing from the Grid - your system produces a surplus of 240KWh. Your bill is made up of the cost of the electricity supplied to you, various charges and taxes - because you bought no electricity from the Grid there is no charge for electricity supplied - you should be paid €0.08 per KWh for the electricity you supplied (€19.20 for 240KWh), however as you didn't buy anything from the Grid there is nothing to credit your €19.20 against so you lose it entirely (it can only be applied to electricity supplied, not fees and taxes). You can't even "store" the credit until the Winter when you will possibly take electricity from the Grid - the "credit" is only applicable against that month's bill. Meanwhile Iberdrola / Endesa et al have sold "your" 240KWh to another consumer for probably 20c a KWh netting them €48.00 that month. For the last two years I've produced a net surplus of about 800KWh per annum. I have the capacity to add another 1.1KW of capacity to my home system (which would increase my surplus by 1600KWh) but thanks to the way the Spanish system charges for grid connection I'd need to pay €184 for my "upgrade" and an additional 11c a day fixed charge + the cost of panels and installation etc. As I'm not really going to see any benefit personally I'm not going to do it. If the system was more equitable - if the 8c a KWh was simply directly credited to your account and could be applied against fees and taxes, for instance, then I'd be happy to do the upgrade and Endesa could make 11c a KWh profit on 2400KWh.
Madrid, Spain is the most beautiful city I have ever visited. Not even cities like Dubai or New York can rival her beauty. When you walk in her streets Spain feels more like a superpower compared to other high GDP countries.
Finally. Woman. Respected pro. Wise. Delightful technical -and natural, skilled thought fresh- really fluent English. It would be great to see her performance in even larger action spaces (European Investment Bank) but damn, the bar is set high!
@ems4884 They want a good rich European countries to migrate to and sell drugs, engage in human trafficking, run grooming gangs and export suicide bombers and terrorists.
no sólo fluidez en inglés, sino "fuidez mental" en general. Feijoo parece que se ha tomado tres carajillos de descafeinado y muestra cierta confusión mental; Ayuso simplemente no puede cerrar la boca pero el 80% de lo que habla es una majadería y el otro 20% una manipulación
@@Aletek si estás pensando en la cabeza hueca de Ayuso vamos "apañaos", o en el carisma de Feijo propio de un contramuslo de pollo congelado; convendrás conmigo en que el inglés es una herramienta básica en un mundo globalizado y que la solvencia técnica de Calviño está contrastada
German green party doesn't like it, that's the "cost" xd But also, if you install lots of renewables, you basically get free electricity (it has actually happenned here some days)
@@wilderteldethey are more expensive because of getting rid of the material later. Dismantling. Incidents. Radiation Emissions around the facilities...
SPAIN POWER EUROPE, NO THANKS! NO ENERGY HUB. Everybody takes responsibility for their own and collaborate with each other. Sacrificing one country for the other, no thanks.
A lot of the employment is based on tourism, which is very temporary. A lot of people work only in the summer months and is unemployed the rest of the year. Also, for similar reason, many jobs are under the table.
@@benicabanas9793 It is not so important, that politic leaders know other languages, for they count with translators. Indeed, there are international leaders who "rely" on translators although they can fully understand and speak the given language. Why? It is a sign of respect for the same citizens of their countries, as they are not forced to know English, French or German. Politics consist also of rituals and symbols. Anyway, Feijóo's and Rajoy's generation did not take lessons of foreign languages. Perhaps French, but English was far to be a diplomatic language. If a wide range of skills in foreign languages were a condition to occupy high positions in the Administration, surely will be a TH-cam's polyglot the best option, or? Sogar konnte ich es versuchen, da ich mehr Sprachen als sicherlich Calviño kann, et sans doute il y aura des gens avec plus de connaissances languistiques que moi, un pauvre étudiant de doctorat. Men det er også rigtig, at jeg havde den fantastiske mulighed, at lære andre sproger, ikke som mine forældre. E finalmente, eu quiser reconhezer que não há governos só ruins ou bons, não devesse dizer que a época de Aznar ou de Sánchez foi dourada e que a de Franco ou Zapatero (são todo exemplos, não a minha opinião) foram escuras. Na vida há grises, eu reconhezo que Sánchez tem feito algumas boãs coisas pela nação, ma anche altre politiche che sono un disastro. E il trionfalismo dei fanatici (tendenza introdotta dal "Sanchismo", perchè prima non c'era e oggi si trova in tutti le partiti) vuole dividere la società tra "fachas" e "progres"
@@luiscondeblazquez8518 Demasiada palabrería para defender a los fanaticos PPVOX. separan tantos años a Calviño de Feijoo? No, y la diferencia en oratoria es abismal, no ya en inglés, en castellano; de las políticas cavernarias de la derecha ya mejor ni hablar, esos son los fanáticos que han introducido el término "sanchismo". P.D. Poner un mensaje en varios idiomas tiene su dosis de pedantería.
Spain? electricity here is expensive, and now is abandoning nuclear power. Mrs Calviño used to be deputy prime minister under Sánchez. her reasoning too optimistic and people living in Spain doesn't share that optimism
I am from Saudi Arabia. I am an Arab and we have history in Spain. We study history from when we were young and know the cities, valleys and rivers in Spain. And the geographical location, I tell you, is that Spain is working at half its potential. as a geographical location. The Spaniards should look at the sun and head to the east because the second half of it is there. Arabs love Spain. Especially in the Arabian Gulf. They are rich countries. The Spaniards do not understand this and support Spain and Spanish companies with government contracts, such as building railways and trains, and they gave Spain. Contracts in the billions, but as soon as the contract ends, shouldn’t they go unlike the Chinese, Americans, and Koreans?
Spain desperately needs an economic boost, so this would be good for all parties involved. Once Russia gets their pipeline across Mongolia and into China, it's game over for those who depend on Russian oil 🛢️
You have an idea of Spain in the 70s. Today Spain is a leader in renewable energy, it has a powerful defense industry, also in chemical, agricultural and machinery manufacturing industries, as well as strong transport infrastructures. It is a basic pillar of the European Union and one of the main armies of NATO. The bullfighting, sangria and flamenco is already part of the past. Update.
That oil isnt really profitable. First because most depots are in European russia or siberia close to the ourals... and needs to be transported all the way to eastern China jumping LOADS of geographical impediments, which makes it more expensive (more of the same to reach India). But Russia becoming dependant on just China would be catastrophic for Russia as they entire economy would depend on China. So the Russians will, once the war is over to recover their grip on providing energy again to the European markets.
The geographic generation of the power generation is unimportant in an integrated Europe. What is important are the emissions per Kilowatthour. This means: sun, wind, nuclear, hydro.
Use the solar energy in creative and generative ways. Power green dehumidifiers to green up the dryer inland areas, create new orchards, build underground hydroponics farms, in addition to creating electricity and hydrogen. Using municipal solid waste streams as fertilizers would also be recommended. Energy capture is the modern theme that should be able to not only avert a harrowing future, but also reap hefty recurring profits.
What desert?? Spain have woods,rivers,lakes,high mountains with snow,is one of european countries with more forest mass in Europe...you talk from Sonora desert in Mexico,10000 km ocean ago.
انا من السعوديه وبما انني عربي ولنا تاريخ في اسبانيا وندرس من كنا صغار هذا التاريخ ونعرف المدن والوديان والانهار في اسبانيا. والموقع الجغرافي اقول لك ان اسبانيا تعمل بنصف امكانياتها. كموقع جغرافي. على الاسبان ان ينظروا الى الشمس ويتجهون الى الشرق لان نصفها الثاني هناك. العرب يحبون اسبانيا. وخاصه في الخليج العربي. وهي دول غنيه. الا ان الاسبان لا يفهون هذا ويدعمون اسبانيا والشركات الاسبانيه بعقود حكوميه كبناء سكك الحديد والقطارات واعطوا اسبانيا. عقود بالمليارات ولكن مجرد ما ينتهي العقد الاسبان يذهبون عكس الصينيين والامريكان والكوريين تجدهم دايما يتقدمون في طلب عقود ولو كان الاسبان موجودين العرب يميلون لهم بحكم العلاقه التاريخيه وعلاقه الدم الاسباني يجب على الاسبان فهم ذالك كسياسيين واقتصاديين انتم في المنتصف بين الشرق والغرب. الشرق يملك الموارد والطاقه والمال. والاستثمار بالكاش والغرب يملك الضريبه هذي الحقيقه
Wanted to comment on her English and saw already been mentioned, brava Spain! This is a big contrast to current German chancellor that speaks no languages… also German economy almost exclusively believes in one way to solve economic issues: harsh austerity measures and hasn’t invested in any other forms of productivity gain since I can remember Would be very nice to see Spain uses this potential and generates clean energy for the continent It could very well mitigate all the risk and distasteful German heavy investment in Russian mafia China also is investing in renewable energy so please try to at least keep up if not aiming for more
As an Spanish I wish we could power Europe with cheap energy and help each other, and also build a stronger economy for Spain and not depend on external help, but there is a problem in building infrastructure in Spain: Spanish people. A lot of people, specially those living in villages or small cities protest against ALL the renewable energy infrastructures which are planned because several reasons. First is that they "damage the nature in those places" (in southern Spain there are places 100% desert, so this is more an excuse) then you point out this fact (there are no trees, no animals, no wildlife, no plants in some areas and a lot of sun) and they (those who protest) say that the infrastructure affects the aesthetic of the landscape. Well. Priorities I think. Then you point out that this may be relative and they say that the companies want to build the infrastructures in the villages and take the electricity to cities, and not for them. They are so selfish they don't even want to share energy with other Spanish cities let alone Europe. Spain has got great things but the problem is that also has got Spanish people: people who want all the benefits of something without any of the sacrifices
@@Djamonja The point of having interconnectors and high voltage power distribution lines is that if it isn't sunny or windy in one area, surplus energy can be sent from where it is sunny or windy. More interconnection helps stabilise the Grid.
There are being BIG improvements on storage of solar energy (they have already been invented actually but are still expensive) and countries that received great amount of sun would become very self-sufficient. One of the countries leading the progress in this energy source is Australia for obvious reasons. It's a matter of time the price of those said units of storage become cheaper. It is stimated somewhere around in 4 years or so.
الهيدروجين الاخضر والازرق. اقل تكلفه. والان شركه ارامكوا السعوديه تعمل على هذا وهي اكبر مصدر له في عام 2030 م. ب 9 مليون طن. رغم وجود النفط والغاز. ولكن الاستثمار في الهيدروجين يجعلك مسيطر على الطاقه العالميه.
It's a shame that in the upcoming elections at the end of July, it's likely that the populism of the far right will remove from government what has perhaps been the best Minister of Economy in Spain, and one of the best governments.
Por qué los medios de comunicación mainstream españoles no se hacen eco de este tipo de entrevistas donde la ministra, el gobierno y por ende los españoles dan una imagen de solvencia y buen hacer dignos de aplaudir?
Están controlados por derechusma, a la que no le interesa que la gente sepa lo bien que este gobierno lo está haciendo con nuestro pais, es sólo cuestión de ver algunos comentarios. Son tan patriotas que hasta les jode que el pais vaya bien bajo el mando de socialistas.
Not with a government controlled by PP and/or PSOE. These two political parties have proven again and again being at the service of the energetic oligopoly.
Spain has the opportunity to become a very important player in Europe not just in energy production but international relations with north Africa and latin America. I really hope they play their cards right and become a power house. I was in Spain a couple a weeks ago and their infrastructure is definitely ahead of north America.
Every deal with northern Africa means a loss in Human Rights, Spain abandoned saharauis, it means a weaker Agriculture or Industry. Only entrepeneurs close to the spanish government benefit from that. Not spaniards.
With the goverments that we have i don't think so 😂
To achieve that goal they (we) would have to exterminate all our politicians and erase half of our red tape rules.
the future of Spain lies in Hispanoamerica not in EU. Anglo-Saxons have been able to tear us apart with their lies, but we never had been as big as we were together.
Renewables currently supply around 40% of our total energy needs. But instead of promoting nuclear energy to support renewables we are importing gas from Africa, America and also Russia from intermediary countries. We could be cleaner and less dependent on fossil fuels but we choose to import gas from countries that don’t respect human rights.
Finally someone representing us in Europe who raises the bar! Congrats, Minister Calviño
As a native English Teacher based in Spain, I applaud her for her excellent use of the English language!
Simply said = Well done!👏
It doesn't change the fact that she is naive and that Europe is poorer than China and the USA 😑
Yes, when you have money in spain you can learn languages in every single school for people who have high incomes , when you are poor you have problems because your teacher are waiting to go to the beach in weekend.
@@Jose-ub1yp A estas alturas con la cantidad de recursos que hay en internet para aprender inglés GRATIS no es necesario ser rico
@@Jose-ub1yp That's no true. I've had many excellent English teachers in public school and secondary school.
@@pabloboronatrivera5214 then you have good luck but you cant compare public school with schools who cost 600 euro per month, and you learn English and German since 5 years old. Maybe you have to take a look of PISA test results
Such a great interview. Minister Calvino is well spoken, knows her stuff and delivers confidence in the responses. Great to hear about the recovery in Spain and continued importance of their role in the upcoming year in the leadership position.
Just a shame that they will get spanked at the next elections. The government has ignored many pressing issues, especially when it come to young people.
She's certainly a very slick interviewee....
It s quite sad that spanish are voting conservative alt right fascist who doesn't have a clue of English nor had a proper job in their lives, like Feijoo or Ayuso or Abasscal
Un gobierno que negocia con terroristas, separatistas nacionalistas y regionalistas, no puede ser tomado en serio.
Que quieres que diga? Que hable mal de su gobierno y que todo lo están haciendo mal?
Yes, Spain, please do.
It's time for Southern Europe to overcome the reputation of contributing less to Europe and having weaker economies.
Spain has a ring of low population land around Madrid that is perfect for solar energy production. Fusion energy could also be produced there in the future.
For that the process for construction of these power plants needs to be made easier. And making anything easier is completely alien to any Spanish government.
Southern Europe contributes so much!
What do you mean by "easier"?. They are as good or better when performing internationally and domestically too. Which countries do it easier and how they achieve it?
Southern Europe puts the food on the table. And spain should never cover its fields with glass. Funking europe, this will never work...😒
@@Wilhelm-X924 es qué hay que creer nos lo que somos tenemos todos los recursos y gente híper mega preparada - no hay que creer lo que los países del norte dicen que somos - solo falta mirar a la historia para saber que el sur y sobretodo España puede hacer mucho más.
This lady has the best non-native English of any politician I've seen outside of Scandinavia. Really impressive.
Edit: I see quite a few other people already said this. 😂
That's about all you can get out her! nothing else. Look beyond her ability to speak english. She is very lacking in intellectual ability.
I cant listen to her smh. Didnt understood anything.
A very knowledgeable and useful explanation as regards Spain's seriousness for solving the energy crisis that is ever present the Spanish economy minister has explained very nicely her government's involvement in this regard.
Thanks Madam for your presentation.
It s quite sad that spanish are voting conservative alt right fascist who doesn't have a clue of English nor had a proper job in their lives, like Feijoo or Ayuso or Abasscal
Don't make me laugh! They are actually worsening the crisis. It seems you don't pay an electricity in Spain.
@@miguelangelsimonfernandez5498That's false. Prove it
@@miguelangelsimonfernandez5498 false
@@miguelangelsimonfernandez5498 Why lie?
Wow!!!Her level of english is really impressive
Im used to our german politicians not even being able to end one sentence in english and she is smashing it
spain has already proved it has the infrastructure for a majority renewable energy grid. in addition, it is also a country full of tons of unique culture whereas western europe is perhaps a bit one dimensional (and very old); it would be fantastic to see spain take a larger role in the eu
Spain has tremendous inequality between generations
@@pablos.reyero4511 She do not look like a spanish woman, i would take her from being a nordic person.
Western Europe? You mean.. like Spain maybe?
@@ordemeprogresso727she was born in A Coruña Spain. Her last name is Calviño so might have Portuguese ancestors. Her father worked for Spanish tv. Nothing Nordic there.
@@danbo967 Portuguese ancestors? That's ridiculous. Galicia is way older than Portugal. Her last name is galician, not protuguese.
Ok as a German I agree that being dependent on Spain is much better than being dependent on Russia……
The only geopolitical risk I see is if we want to discuss the by us occupied territory of Mallorca.
hahahaha you're funny
from Mallorca with laugh
You're not buying it, however you'll keep on renting it 😂 but the landlord is a cool person 😊 don't worry
Yes, Spain is on its way to being the battery of Europe, the green energy superpower of Europe. perfect geographical position, 300 sunny days/year, large windy plains, biomass, large hydroelectric, excellent ports prepared for export and an ultra-modern, meshed and digitized electrical network deployed throughout the country.
Investors recognize it as such, Spain is in the same situation as Norway when it discovered in the 1980s that it was floating on an oil stock market. Happy for Spain🇬🇧❤️🍷🇬🇧🇪🇸
@@T.Davies ok good point about the "new resources" but expecting Spain to become a Scandinavian country in the middle run is a bit of a stretch. Don't get me wrong, would be happy for them
@@KrlKngMrtssn My point is in the medium/long term, Spain has a mediocre education and its policies have always been characterized by talking a lot and doing little, every long journey is made with a first step.
For the first time, I believe that the two major parties and Spanish private capital do not want to miss this opportunity and the commitment is very strong, a project for the country.
one thing leads to another, more income, more opportunities, more money to invest in education and other aspects to improve.
a new illusion that at the same time benefits the EU and stops the few eurosceptics.
I believe that Spain deserves this opportunity, to show that it can be an important player in the EU and gain self-esteem.
What a competent leader! :)
She is a disgrace, a socialist whos only task is to mask the real numbers of the state's economy.
I hope she exploits her talents, and I hope Spain exploit their land for clean energy and energy brokers have a new reason to see our energybills grow once more.
@@coronaphone710 I hope she exploits her talents but out of the government that is harming the country.
@@neiss2 How, by reducing unemployment and raising wages?
@@guillermosanchez626 if the debt didn't rise as much as it has risen...
Thank you DW for giving international news that often isn't covered as widely in the US. I envy European stability in comparison to the US and wish I could live there or in Japan (sadly not to easy to move to other countries without skilled labor or a job with a high salary). I hope someday I can leave the US. Progressive Europe is what I wish the US was more like, but we are too divided:'( I miss the days when we lived in relative peace.
En España no es todo como lo pinta ella hay mucho desempleo,
Los precios han subido casi un 12 porciento más que el años pasado,la renta percápita ha bajado .
Y el gobierno gasta más de los que ingresa.
No hacen más que subir impuestos y los perjudicados en todo esto Somo las clases medias.
Es el país Europeo con más políticos.
Te lo dice uno que lleva 38 años viviendo en España.
Unfortunately, Europe is getting islamised for the huge immigration. Europe is not as used to be anymore.
@@oiernaifamille3467 spreading lies narrated by the right, like sheeps
Quit making excuses Aubrey, "greener pastures" await you, thanks 🇺🇸
Wow! Interesting comment from the other side of the Atlantic
Normally most Americans solely comment on how EU will collapse tomorrow and everything we’ve done the last 70 years was wrong
Alright Spain!!!! I can't wait to someday visit this beautiful country...
You'll be welcome whenever you want!!!!! :)
You will love it!
24h Max And out!
Dont waste time with Spain!!
Don’t come
Wow.
Looks like the perfect successor one day to von der Leyen. Extremely eloquent, concise enough, an amazing communicator.
Agree
God help us! No! Look beyond her ability to speak english! You should look at the real numbers of her government in terms of unemployment, energy costs, etc.
@@miguelangelsimonfernandez5498 I know your country's unemployment numbers for decades... they suck and you simply refuse, PP or socialists, to copy what works abroad. So the bar is really low there and... well you get the idea. Energy costs: Both major parties have screwed up that one partially as well, but I'm under the impression thinks improve there. Again - both parties.
@@Walterwaltraud they can easily improve because they can not be worse. Both main parties are corrupt to the marrow. They have different traits but the result is similar because they refuse to manager and only raise taxes, increase the numbers of civil servants, and give the two main labour unions (CCOO and UGT) a power they do not deserve. Hiring a worker in Spain is a gamble and a nightmare.
@@Walterwaltraud the cost of renewables per kW is not competitive compared to hydro or nuclear. Spain blew Up last year 100 dams in exchange for EU subsidies and at the EU bureaucrats who in their inifinite wisdom decided they know better.
Glad to hear Spain's economy is bouncing strong!
it is not tho
@@sunsunsunh To quote Mr. Lebowski "Are you employed, Sir?"
Even Czech Republic has a better economy than Spain despite being from post soviet block.
it´s only "bouncing" because it basically plummeted
@@Fatima-xf8xp well... 😂😂😂. Source:
Never thought that a Spanish politician could speak English at that level. My respect to Minister Calviño.
not very common. they all have very bad english
Pues ya ves que si. Lo que es imposible es un inglés que hable español a ese nivel. La diferencia es que nosotros somos muchos más amables y generosos a la hora de valorar vuestro nivel de español.
Diferencias culturales, supongo.
@@JulesXu asumes que soy inglés? Soy español, lo que pasa es que acostumbrado al nivelazo de políticos como Rajoy pues...
No he dicho que me sorprenda que un español hable inglés bien, me sorprende que un POLÍTICO español hable inglés bien jajaja
Edit: tienes razón en lo que valoramos muy bien un nivel de español mediocre comparado con el nivel que exigen los ingleses de inglés o los franceses de francés. Como tu dices, diferencias culturales, supongo...
@@pizzaipinya2442 they all now have to get their orders from Klaus and ursula, so that’s a big incentive to improve their english level.
@@JulesXuFeijoo no sabe inglés 😬
I love that on DW there seems to be a friendship between many of those being interviewed and the interviewers. It just raises the quality of the already high quality journalism DW does.
Too cosy
Probably the best economy minister Spain has ever had, specially because she's not a politician, but a technocrat.
It must be said that the previous ones left the bar low (corruption cases, even convicted of misappropriation).
Thanks for the video.
Usted no vive en España verdad? Si algo caracteriza a los gobiernos socialistas, como en el que actualmente ejerce de Ministra, es por la ruina que dejan. Y no solo por no saber gestionar, sino porque los casos de corrupción en su partido son abundantes. Infórmese mejor y no hable de oídas!
@@27GLA pues resulta que soy español y vivo en España. No voy a entrar al trapo con usted, solo le diré que me estoy refiriendo en concreto a esta ministra y no al gobierno en general. La realidad es que los ministros de economía de nuestro país tienen un historial nefasto, mientras que esta señora es una persona respetada en Europa e incluso por la oposición en España, precisamente porque no viene estrictamente de la política sino por su trayectoria previa en la comisión europea. Dígame un caso de corrupción de esta ministra y le daré la razón. Un saludo.
100% agree. As I wrote this Mrs. Calviño was elected the new president of The European Investment Bank (EIB). Such a shame for Spain as she has been indeed the best economy minister we ever had.
Spain & Portugal can setup underwater wave machines to generate unlimited energy at the Atlantic Ocean.
🌍 🌊 🌊 🌊 🔋 🇪🇸 🇵🇹
Wave energy doesn't generate that much power. The largest wave power facility I've heard about is only around 3 MW. A single offshore wind turbine can generate more than double. It'd be far more feasible to invest in wind than waves.
@@SmilingNinja wind power only works when it's windy. We have lots in Scotland. But they are pushing tidal power twice ah day every day. And we have the fastest moving bodies of water round the northern isles. What ever work's for each country. We obviously can't do much solar power Hahaha we only get 1 day of sun per year
Nuclear Power is The REAL Answer to our Energy Needs!
@@michaelsparks6084 Not really, it's a variety of different technologies working together to achieve the desired goal.
@@bck481 True, but there are places offshore in Spanish and Portuguese waters that are very windy almost every day. Wind power makes far more sense than wave power if we want to generate a lot of clean, renewable energy.
Minister Calvino sounds well-informed, confident, competent and sane. If only she would come to the UK and do politics here.
Considering Sánchez's goverment is most likely coming to an end in the coming months, you can have her.
If only she wasn't lying
@@diegoarroyo1641ya te gustaría . Eso no va a ocurrir.
@@diegoarroyo1641ya te gustaría . Eso no va a ocurrir.
Just another great reason to trust in Europe and count on the EU.
Thank you DW for allocating air time on this.
Things are starting to look up for mother Spain🇪🇸. Congratulations 🎉 from PH🇵🇭
Ms Calviño is a top-tier economist and politician. Spain has really come to play.
The fact she studied economics, like Spain's president, does not make her a competent and knowledgeable professional. She's the daughter of a relevant spanish socialist who ended up in Brussels studying at expensive schools and doing top tier networking with Europe's top bureaucrats.
She's a lier .
@@Kakonanyou mean "liar"? Improve your English, mate. O dilo en español
@@miguelangelsimonfernandez5498bulo .
She is so articulate and nice
Go Spain!!! Magnificent!!!
Hopefully one day English politicians can speak Spanish at the same level that Minister Calviño speaks English.
Spain is really the next Big Business Hub
I hope so! With the right policies applied, it shouldn't be difficult thanks to the incredible natural advantages we have, like the great climate and weather :)
Do you really think so??
I wish but there is way too much red tape, it's difficult to start a business, you get charged for everything when you aren't even profitable yet and it is difficult to navigate the bureaucracy without lawyers and other experts so you end up paying even more money. Add to that that there is little investment in tech not just from the public sphere but also private. There is little capital and many end up moving their businesses to the UK, Netherlands, Germany, Nordic nations and if they can to the US to get things going.
Spain has definitely improved a lot since 2008 primarily under the reforms of Rajoy that cut down on bureaucracy but there is a lot left to do. Rajoy had the chance with his majority government and two terms to do a lot more but he failed to either because it wasn't in his interest or he didn't care to. I thought Calvino as VP and Minister of Economy and Digitalization that we would see more efficient government bureaucracy, at least for business creations, but the whole digitalization hasn't really manifested at least not in the way I imagine it would. We shall see how things improve.
I am from Spain and I don’t think so
The big unemployment hub
Using Spains natural resources in form of geography sounds great.
Tourims have helped Spains economy a lot in the past so why not these new modern geographical assets?
I disagree, tourism only has brought us misery, pollution and gentrification. As a spaniard I hope we find another ways of diversify our economy and reindustrialize our country as soon as possible. Investments in renewable energy seems a good way to start the change.
Everyone is welcome in Spain. Tourists as well.
But we need to invest more on research and find the way of exploding our natural resorces of lithium, rare earths, natural gas and others, in an enviromental friendly way.
We also need legal security for investora. Spain has all the rest necessary to attract investments.
She destroyed no less than 100 hydroelectric dams last year, effectively reducing distributed water reserves. The only real geographical asset they count on is the sun and tourists.
la gente que se necesita para mantener un huerto solar es inmensamente mas pequeña que la que puede trabajar en restauracion y hosteleria... es obvio
since when to have a job option is a "trap"? the trap is the 300€ you have to pay to work as freelance...
Bravo Espanha 👏👏👏❤️🇵🇹
It is mutual Portugal 😍
Spain = Portugal ❤
@@lemurarticotrepador1641 Zpain is like Putin´s Russia!!!
@@suevialania wtf
@@suevialania Spain is an ally of Ukraine.
Great idea to get renewable energy from Spain for Europe!
They are renewable energy powerhouse with even greater potential for expansion. Infrastructure can be worked out to benefit the people of Europe and rebuild the regional economy.
It needs more work than an energy injection
@@coronaphone710 but if we could transform Europe into an almost-free energy region (which can be done with renewable energy), and applied the right policies (not too difficult to apply, and not too big changes), we could bring lots of industry here!!
Spain is nowhere near to supplying renewable energy for a number of reasons. The grid is not ready to supply that energy, it is way more expensive than France's nuclear, there is no concurrent market within Spain to sell it to. Her English is good and that is about all one can say nice about her. The real commitment to her words and her politics actually make energy costs 40% more expensive than in Portugal who basically buys that energy from us, go figure!
Before I watch... Just on the title, This is "Brilliant" I Double down on the like of Minister Calvino!!!
Let's make Spain great again. As a spaniards we need to invest in new technologies and start to not depend on the eurozone.
انا من السعوديه واقول اسبانيا 🇪🇸 كموقع افضل موقع باوربا. وهي تتوسط بين اوربا والشرق الاوسط. ولها امكانيات كبيره مستقل منها 50 بالميه فقط. كالزراعه والطاقه وبما اني من السعوديه وندرس التاريخ العربي باسبانيا. بالمدراس ونعرف مدنها ووديانها وانهارها. وعلاقه اسبانيا بالشرق الاوسط. قويه فهي القادره على الربط بين الشرق والغرب والاسبان علقتهم مع العرب قديمه ولا يمكن لاسبانيا ان تكون دوله عاديه. ابدا. بحكم علاقتها مع دول الخليج العربي كالسعوديه والامارات وقطر والكويت وعمان. الدول الغنيه هذي تستثمر في اسبانيا وتدعم اسبانيا بالنفط والغاز والبتروكيماويات وجلب الشركات الاسبانيه للعمل في هذه البلدان لدعم الشركات الاسبانيه ولكن على اسبانيا. ان تفتح الاستثمار لمواطني الدول الخليجيه لكي يستثمروا داخل اسبانيا بالزراعه والعقارات لان التسويق لاسبانيا والاستثمار فيها ضعيف في الخليج العربي يجب على الاسبان التسويق لانفسهم لان اغلب هذه الدول تستثمر في بريطانيا وفرنسا والصين وامريكا. ودول شرق اسيا. وجنوب شرق اسيا والدول الخليجيه عندها صناديق استثماريه. كبيره تملك تروليونات الدولارات يجب على الاسبان ان ينفتحوا نحوا الشرق. ❤
She is by FAR the best English-speaking Spanish politician I have ever seen. Lightyears.
I acknowledge that her English is very good! However I live in Spain and we all know this woman. It just so happens that elections are coming up and her party is at a very high risk of not being re-elected. So what I see here is an attempt to make everyone believe her government has been a successful one and that her government has managed to lower unemployment rates. This is false, people in Spain still struggle to find jobs with a decent salary here (unless you work in IT). The truth of the matter is that Spain could have been Europe’s energy hub a long time ago but all the different political parties were busy collaborating with energy companies, getting paid by them and making sure that didn’t happen.
As all politicians she's selling their supposed achievements. However, I do hope the right wing (there's no chance they won't win) keep this energy plan in place. I think it's a good oportunity. I haven't heard a plan that makes sense for this country since... well, never before, tbh.
Lets go Spain!!! Rock n roll baby!!!
Great performance minister Calvino, congratulations!
It's really nice to hear such forward thinking from a large EU nation.
Spain has it big from a Geopolitical point of view: gateway to Latin America and North Africa. EU should take advantage of it to create much closer relations with them. From a Geographical and strategic perspective it lies at the Straight of Gibraltar, one of the busiest marine routes in the World. I feel Spain’s potential is underdeveloped.
Gibraltar belongs to the United Kingdom, all the potential remains with them, after Spain is a very passive country to be a leader, Mexico is the country that leads Latin America
@@eltecnico9541 it doesn’t belong to the United Kingdom, it was ceded.
@@eltecnico9541 Is this satire? Mexico has no say in the internal matters of other spanish-speaking countries. You are joke. Any latin american reading your message is gonna have the laugh of his/her life. Don't deceive yourself. And UK has a little base in the istm of Gibraltar, but they do not control the Straight of Gibraltar.
all going forward, got a road map, nice questions, pleasant answers, smiles, nods, twinkles, it's been a pleasure
The Spanish government may have realised that climate change (Global warming) is going to have a significant negative impact on Spanish agriculture and tourism industry. Faced with these changes in climate, it would not come as a surprise to find that the Spanish are trying to make a virtue out of, what would otherwise, be a climate disaster.
If you are going to suffer from prolonged burning hot summer's, you might as well harness as much of that energy as possible, and sell it, in the hope of making up for the loss of agricultural exports.
You are right,but it will come at an other cost,a land covered by solar panels and wind mills.
@@valevisa8429 nonsense.
@@valevisa8429 it is not the proliferation of solar panels that will destroy Spanish agriculture, it is the very long, hot, summers that will make growing anything very difficult, particular, as water will be difficult to find, even for drinking. Covering the land in solar arrays to generate energy to sell maybe the only source of revenue. The mid latitudes are going to be depolulated, as temperatures rise.
@@nigeljohnson9820 I am very aware of Spain's dire situation.All i'm saying,fields of solar panels don't look too good replacing nature.
@@valevisa8429the land around Madrid is agriculturally very unproductive. The ground is very stony and has terrible quality. It’s much better to put solar panels there and combine it will agriculture. It will actually result in less wasted water. Additionally it’s not like many people live there.
We produce too much food in Europe, what we need is more cheap energy to drive our industries.
Wind and solar energy do not need to be imported like fossil fuels.
Once installed the wind and sun can provide energy every month for FREE.
Not for free, more expensive than nuclear, NG , nothing is free, Pinhead , just another way to get rich on carbon tax / replaced former religion tax/.
Not for free. The cost of the energy infrastructure is a continued cost.
Kenz... For free what a laugh, nothing in life is free you must live in cloud cuckoo land...You mean big profits for the rich toffs etc etc.. Tony Cuenca
You are right. And still Europe esp. Germany consumes Fossil fuels...
Except when it rains or there is no wind, the future is nuclear power
Rather than an interview please be honest, it was a massage
She had the homework done! 😉
Hydrogen won't be significant in ground transportation, because of the inefficiencies. But it could have sensible use cases for shipping, and long-haul air transport.
What inefficiencies are you referring to, specifically?
@@cameron6770 The efficiency of electrolysis is 70 to 80%. The efficiency of transporting the hydrogen to the fueling stations is hard to estimate - it's very dependent on how much can go in a truckload, and how far it has to go. But all the energy expended in transport should be added in. A fuel cell is about 60% efficient. In this scenario, hydrogen is used as an energy-storage and transport medium, and it functions at very low overall efficiency. It's very cheap to transport electric energy using wires, and EV batteries have efficiencies of 90 to 95%.
Spain is betting on renewables, France does the same with nuclear while Germany burns coal and gas in the meantime, I really hope those countries manage to come up with an integral solution to their energy sources dilemma in the near future, one that benefits all of the EU instead of pushing and pulling against each other to get their way, and they better do it quick unless they want to keep fattening the pockets of the USA and other oil/gas exporting non-EU countries like Norway, Algeria, etc.
Nuclear is not renewable. Germany reduces coal, oil and gas significantly during the last 20 years they pushed solar and wind. Let's not forget: Germany started with almost no renewables.
Mrs Calviño is one of the greatest politicians Spain have ever had.
But for some reason the general public doesn't see this, and they just focus on voting candidates without even a knowledge of English or an international perspective at all.
I don't think Spain will get any better without politicians doing what Calviño is currently doing.
Let's see 🤞
Hello, I'm Spanish and I'm just here to say that Calviño's english is better than what I spected. English has been truly a complicated topic for our polititans for a while but it seems that that thing is changing.
I am from Saudi Arabia, and I say to every Spaniard, you are in the middle between East and West, and Spain has taken enough taxes from the West to head towards the sun, where there is oil, gas, petrochemicals, minerals, green and blue hydrogen, money and business in the Arabian Gulf. Open your country to the East. Investments will bring you hundreds of billions.
This is the highest English spoken level i have ever heard from any Spanish politician in my whole life.
This kind of politicians makes me proud of being Spanish 🇪🇦
Very soon Abascal 😂
Que te vote Txapote
Great minister, she´s brilliant. The comparission from economic crash 2008: AWUFUL (the right PP was governing also, and they put the pressure on the middle and lowers income people, and cut taxes on the rich ones, yes, can´t believe that...luxury articles for example get a reduction on taxes) but books, baby diapers, etc, went up on IVA...). In the other crises (covid one) Spain is recovering, growing up and you can feel recovery already, but in the last case was managed by this lady ideas (PSOE party).
Zapatero was in the goverment🤦
@@jalejandromartin7642 It was Mariano Rajoy (PP) who made the working class pay for the banking crash of 2008, genious.
I wonder how hot the bearings on the wheels get, since they're spinning really fast
Her English is excellent
It's strange to see how the new generation of European leaders almost always have excellent English skills
What a great interview … very on point 👍
Amo España 🇦🇷❤️🇪🇸
🇦🇷🇪🇸❤️
They already have the tap to Portugal’s water supply. Damming rivers when it’s dry and opening valves when it’s wet. Spain is massive and largely empty . They could be a people hub too , taking full advantage of all those ‘classic renewables ‘.
Not at all 48 millions live in Spain so it is the 4th most populated country in EU.
Italy has a lot to learn from spain over the last decade
But Italy's unemployment rate is lower than that of Spain & its GDP growth is quite strong, too, at the moment
@@carlomontecarlo7881Italy has barely grown last year while Spain was the fastest growing economy of the eurozone
@@bfedezl2018 Italy has grown significantly in 2022 (+3,7% adjusted for inflation, +6,8% in terms of volume). Data from Eurostat.
(Pedro Sánchez).
As far as I know about Italy (very little) the south is really behind the north, right? Maybe the south could/should take Spain as a model, what do you think??
Spain is historically convinced that is the California of Europe,.. the place of the creativity and the opportunities,..
Nope, entrepreneurs have a ton of taxes so trying to lauch a bussiness in Spain is extremly dificult.
Others countries gives money and tries to help the entrepreneur that is creating jobs for other people, here we don't.
Te lo digo california era de España no te heqiboques
@@guillemtejadohernandez1257 heqiboques???????????
Great news for humanity. 🌿🌎⚡
She is deputy pime minister not vice president.
Thank you for this video. I am sure that European cooperation is the key to economic progress.
All of us are very proud for being Europeans. We must cooperate and protect each other🇪🇦🤝
😂 we pay way over the price for energy in Spain we could just change to solar panels ah but no all of the ex ministers ect. are all heads of the energy companies here
If you are accusing them of corruption and you have evidence to back that up, then the Spanish courts should have a say on that!
But if your claim is true, they would be motivated to increase the role of Spain in the European energy market. More energy production in Spain would mean greater profits for them and lower prices for Spaniards.
Your analysis of the situation is clearly faulty.
There's nothing to stop you installing solar panels on your house - in fact the Sanchez government is offering you grants of up to 40% to do so. However you're right that the revolving door between government and the boards of the electricity companies gives them undue influence.
You only need to look at the current Spanish law on selling the energy your PV system produces to the energy companies to see it. The EU requires that excess energy is bought by the electricity companies at least at the wholesale price - in Spain this was watered down after lobbying from Iberdrola and Endesa to allowing electricity companies to offer a credit against that part of your electricity bill which relates to the supply of electricity. Which is fine until you consider that for half the year any PV system that has a battery component will probably not take any electricity from the Grid. So in June, say, you have sun all month - you draw nothing from the Grid - your system produces a surplus of 240KWh.
Your bill is made up of the cost of the electricity supplied to you, various charges and taxes - because you bought no electricity from the Grid there is no charge for electricity supplied - you should be paid €0.08 per KWh for the electricity you supplied (€19.20 for 240KWh), however as you didn't buy anything from the Grid there is nothing to credit your €19.20 against so you lose it entirely (it can only be applied to electricity supplied, not fees and taxes). You can't even "store" the credit until the Winter when you will possibly take electricity from the Grid - the "credit" is only applicable against that month's bill. Meanwhile Iberdrola / Endesa et al have sold "your" 240KWh to another consumer for probably 20c a KWh netting them €48.00 that month.
For the last two years I've produced a net surplus of about 800KWh per annum. I have the capacity to add another 1.1KW of capacity to my home system (which would increase my surplus by 1600KWh) but thanks to the way the Spanish system charges for grid connection I'd need to pay €184 for my "upgrade" and an additional 11c a day fixed charge + the cost of panels and installation etc. As I'm not really going to see any benefit personally I'm not going to do it. If the system was more equitable - if the 8c a KWh was simply directly credited to your account and could be applied against fees and taxes, for instance, then I'd be happy to do the upgrade and Endesa could make 11c a KWh profit on 2400KWh.
Madrid, Spain is the most beautiful city I have ever visited. Not even cities like Dubai or New York can rival her beauty. When you walk in her streets Spain feels more like a superpower compared to other high GDP countries.
Finally.
Woman. Respected pro. Wise.
Delightful technical -and natural, skilled thought fresh- really fluent English.
It would be great to see her performance in even larger action spaces (European Investment Bank) but damn, the bar is set high!
As a non-Pakistani, I fully support Spain. May Allah bless it... 🙃
What does Pakistan have to do with this?
@ems4884 They want a good rich European countries to migrate to and sell drugs, engage in human trafficking, run grooming gangs and export suicide bombers and terrorists.
Spain should bring German industries to the Iberian peninsula, instead of exporting energy to Germany. What a lack of ambition!
I am in Spain now. Electricity costs have skyrocketed. Gasoline is 1.50 per liter. She is lying about the "success" of reducing energy costs.
Very interesting interview
Ole Calviño, cuántos peperos de Génova tienen esa fluidez en inglés???? Feijó? Ayuso?
no sólo fluidez en inglés, sino "fuidez mental" en general. Feijoo parece que se ha tomado tres carajillos de descafeinado y muestra cierta confusión mental; Ayuso simplemente no puede cerrar la boca pero el 80% de lo que habla es una majadería y el otro 20% una manipulación
@@rosafuster8376 a parar la ola reaccionaria el 23J 👍
@Captain Planet 😘
Ahora resulta que un político español para ser buen político ha de saber inglés. Las ideas son más importantes que los idiomas.
@@Aletek si estás pensando en la cabeza hueca de Ayuso vamos "apañaos", o en el carisma de Feijo propio de un contramuslo de pollo congelado; convendrás conmigo en que el inglés es una herramienta básica en un mundo globalizado y que la solvencia técnica de Calviño está contrastada
definitely Europe needs again a power Spain
Why not neuclear? What is the cost for delivered MWh to where it is needed.
German green party doesn't like it, that's the "cost" xd
But also, if you install lots of renewables, you basically get free electricity (it has actually happenned here some days)
Latest renewable produce at 30€/Mwh, that including installation’s cost. Nuclear produce at 67€/MWh with costs already paid. That’s why 😉
@@wilderteldethey are more expensive because of getting rid of the material later. Dismantling. Incidents. Radiation Emissions around the facilities...
DW is excellence
SPAIN POWER EUROPE, NO THANKS! NO ENERGY HUB. Everybody takes responsibility for their own and collaborate with each other. Sacrificing one country for the other, no thanks.
You are not asked
@@user-zt4zr7eg6z yeah I know, and that is exactly the problem. We are not asked much at all.
Finally a Spanish Minister talking English fluently!! Congrats!!
Politicians talking like politicians..
the deficit is quite High, also unemployment is still quite high in Spain
why are these problems still persisting?
A lot of the employment is based on tourism, which is very temporary. A lot of people work only in the summer months and is unemployed the rest of the year. Also, for similar reason, many jobs are under the table.
Next interview, please, to one of the 3 million unemployeds in Spain. Then you will have a wider perspective
Que entrevisten a Feijoo, seguro que lo explica de maravilla.
@@benicabanas9793 It is not so important, that politic leaders know other languages, for they count with translators. Indeed, there are international leaders who "rely" on translators although they can fully understand and speak the given language. Why? It is a sign of respect for the same citizens of their countries, as they are not forced to know English, French or German. Politics consist also of rituals and symbols. Anyway, Feijóo's and Rajoy's generation did not take lessons of foreign languages. Perhaps French, but English was far to be a diplomatic language. If a wide range of skills in foreign languages were a condition to occupy high positions in the Administration, surely will be a TH-cam's polyglot the best option, or? Sogar konnte ich es versuchen, da ich mehr Sprachen als sicherlich Calviño kann, et sans doute il y aura des gens avec plus de connaissances languistiques que moi, un pauvre étudiant de doctorat. Men det er også rigtig, at jeg havde den fantastiske mulighed, at lære andre sproger, ikke som mine forældre. E finalmente, eu quiser reconhezer que não há governos só ruins ou bons, não devesse dizer que a época de Aznar ou de Sánchez foi dourada e que a de Franco ou Zapatero (são todo exemplos, não a minha opinião) foram escuras. Na vida há grises, eu reconhezo que Sánchez tem feito algumas boãs coisas pela nação, ma anche altre politiche che sono un disastro. E il trionfalismo dei fanatici (tendenza introdotta dal "Sanchismo", perchè prima non c'era e oggi si trova in tutti le partiti) vuole dividere la società tra "fachas" e "progres"
@@luiscondeblazquez8518 Demasiada palabrería para defender a los fanaticos PPVOX. separan tantos años a Calviño de Feijoo? No, y la diferencia en oratoria es abismal, no ya en inglés, en castellano; de las políticas cavernarias de la derecha ya mejor ni hablar, esos son los fanáticos que han introducido el término "sanchismo".
P.D. Poner un mensaje en varios idiomas tiene su dosis de pedantería.
Spain? electricity here is expensive, and now is abandoning nuclear power. Mrs Calviño used to be deputy prime minister under Sánchez. her reasoning too optimistic and people living in Spain doesn't share that optimism
I am from Saudi Arabia. I am an Arab and we have history in Spain. We study history from when we were young and know the cities, valleys and rivers in Spain. And the geographical location, I tell you, is that Spain is working at half its potential. as a geographical location. The Spaniards should look at the sun and head to the east because the second half of it is there. Arabs love Spain. Especially in the Arabian Gulf. They are rich countries. The Spaniards do not understand this and support Spain and Spanish companies with government contracts, such as building railways and trains, and they gave Spain. Contracts in the billions, but as soon as the contract ends, shouldn’t they go unlike the Chinese, Americans, and Koreans?
Spain desperately needs an economic boost, so this would be good for all parties involved. Once Russia gets their pipeline across Mongolia and into China, it's game over for those who depend on Russian oil 🛢️
You have an idea of Spain in the 70s. Today Spain is a leader in renewable energy, it has a powerful defense industry, also in chemical, agricultural and machinery manufacturing industries, as well as strong transport infrastructures. It is a basic pillar of the European Union and one of the main armies of NATO. The bullfighting, sangria and flamenco is already part of the past. Update.
@@davidparvez4972🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 best joke
That oil isnt really profitable. First because most depots are in European russia or siberia close to the ourals... and needs to be transported all the way to eastern China jumping LOADS of geographical impediments, which makes it more expensive (more of the same to reach India). But Russia becoming dependant on just China would be catastrophic for Russia as they entire economy would depend on China. So the Russians will, once the war is over to recover their grip on providing energy again to the European markets.
The geographic generation of the power generation is unimportant in an integrated Europe. What is important are the emissions per Kilowatthour. This means: sun, wind, nuclear, hydro.
Nadia you just made a S African 🇪🇸 proud on all your answers ✊🏻
Spain < 333
Use the solar energy in creative and generative ways. Power green dehumidifiers to green up the dryer inland areas, create new orchards, build underground hydroponics farms, in addition to creating electricity and hydrogen.
Using municipal solid waste streams as fertilizers would also be recommended.
Energy capture is the modern theme that should be able to not only avert a harrowing future, but also reap hefty recurring profits.
Brilliant lady!
Lovely Spanish Economy Minister....always charming....always so efficient.
That would work very well. Turn the Spanish desert into one huge solar panel.
What desert?? Spain have woods,rivers,lakes,high mountains with snow,is one of european countries with more forest mass in Europe...you talk from Sonora desert in Mexico,10000 km ocean ago.
You should check the geography of spain before saying things like that lol
Yes, the only desert in Europe tho. :)
Brilliant woman!!!! Muchas gracias desde una española residente en el Reino Unido. A ver si volvemos a la UE.!!! ❤
انا من السعوديه وبما انني عربي ولنا تاريخ في اسبانيا وندرس من كنا صغار هذا التاريخ ونعرف المدن والوديان والانهار في اسبانيا. والموقع الجغرافي اقول لك ان اسبانيا تعمل بنصف امكانياتها. كموقع جغرافي. على الاسبان ان ينظروا الى الشمس ويتجهون الى الشرق لان نصفها الثاني هناك. العرب يحبون اسبانيا. وخاصه في الخليج العربي. وهي دول غنيه. الا ان الاسبان لا يفهون هذا ويدعمون اسبانيا والشركات الاسبانيه بعقود حكوميه كبناء سكك الحديد والقطارات واعطوا اسبانيا. عقود بالمليارات ولكن مجرد ما ينتهي العقد الاسبان يذهبون عكس الصينيين والامريكان والكوريين تجدهم دايما يتقدمون في طلب عقود ولو كان الاسبان موجودين العرب يميلون لهم بحكم العلاقه التاريخيه وعلاقه الدم الاسباني يجب على الاسبان فهم ذالك كسياسيين واقتصاديين انتم في المنتصف بين الشرق والغرب. الشرق يملك الموارد والطاقه والمال. والاستثمار بالكاش والغرب يملك الضريبه هذي الحقيقه
Lovely furniture.
Lmao
Wanted to comment on her English and saw already been mentioned, brava Spain!
This is a big contrast to current German chancellor that speaks no languages… also German economy almost exclusively believes
in one way to solve economic issues: harsh austerity measures and hasn’t invested in any other forms of productivity gain since I can remember
Would be very nice to see Spain uses this potential and generates clean energy for the continent
It could very well mitigate all the risk and distasteful German heavy investment in Russian mafia
China also is investing in renewable energy so please try to at least keep up if not aiming for more
As an Spanish I wish we could power Europe with cheap energy and help each other, and also build a stronger economy for Spain and not depend on external help, but there is a problem in building infrastructure in Spain: Spanish people. A lot of people, specially those living in villages or small cities protest against ALL the renewable energy infrastructures which are planned because several reasons. First is that they "damage the nature in those places" (in southern Spain there are places 100% desert, so this is more an excuse) then you point out this fact (there are no trees, no animals, no wildlife, no plants in some areas and a lot of sun) and they (those who protest) say that the infrastructure affects the aesthetic of the landscape. Well. Priorities I think. Then you point out that this may be relative and they say that the companies want to build the infrastructures in the villages and take the electricity to cities, and not for them. They are so selfish they don't even want to share energy with other Spanish cities let alone Europe. Spain has got great things but the problem is that also has got Spanish people: people who want all the benefits of something without any of the sacrifices
There are renewables since over 20yrs or longer in Andalucia. So its probably not true.
Very beautiful vice president of spaiiñ:l feel lovè
More variable renewables with no economically viable storage just further destabilizes the grid and makes electricity prices rise even further.
They have ways to stabilize the frequency of the grid with renewables. But yes, they will need more storage.
@@Djamonja The point of having interconnectors and high voltage power distribution lines is that if it isn't sunny or windy in one area, surplus energy can be sent from where it is sunny or windy. More interconnection helps stabilise the Grid.
@@malcolmrose3361 What does that have to do with what I said?
There are being BIG improvements on storage of solar energy (they have already been invented actually but are still expensive) and countries that received great amount of sun would become very self-sufficient. One of the countries leading the progress in this energy source is Australia for obvious reasons. It's a matter of time the price of those said units of storage become cheaper. It is stimated somewhere around in 4 years or so.
At long last… A Spanish politician who speaks good English!!
Spain gives us energy, we give them water
If they have enough electricity, they can also make fresh water from the ocean.
@@GHinWI They could desalinate water with nuclear exhaust steam.
@@GHinWIwoo, irrigate the desert 😊
What is the cost of hydrogen from solar or wind?
الهيدروجين الاخضر والازرق. اقل تكلفه. والان شركه ارامكوا السعوديه تعمل على هذا وهي اكبر مصدر له في عام 2030 م. ب 9 مليون طن. رغم وجود النفط والغاز. ولكن الاستثمار في الهيدروجين يجعلك مسيطر على الطاقه العالميه.
Well done to Spain for wanting to become Europe's energy hub, they might have to share that position with Ireland though 😉
What is Ireland doing? Didn't hear about it...
Ah yes,the famous irish sun.
@@evagalva4122 no it's wind 🙂
@@agritech802 Ah,Ok ...Spain have also wind
@@agritech802 Spain has everything, sun, wind, sea etc.
I grand Spain their best efforts! 👍👍👍👍
The lady is so clever and charmfull.
It's a shame that in the upcoming elections at the end of July, it's likely that the populism of the far right will remove from government what has perhaps been the best Minister of Economy in Spain, and one of the best governments.
December 2023. They kept ruling Spain, and Mrs Calviño was elected the new president of The European Investment Bank (EIB).
Que pena que para oir algo bueno de España, con perspectiva e implicación política, haya que ir a canales estrangeros...
Por qué los medios de comunicación mainstream españoles no se hacen eco de este tipo de entrevistas donde la ministra, el gobierno y por ende los españoles dan una imagen de solvencia y buen hacer dignos de aplaudir?
Están controlados por derechusma, a la que no le interesa que la gente sepa lo bien que este gobierno lo está haciendo con nuestro pais, es sólo cuestión de ver algunos comentarios. Son tan patriotas que hasta les jode que el pais vaya bien bajo el mando de socialistas.
Not with a government controlled by PP and/or PSOE. These two political parties have proven again and again being at the service of the energetic oligopoly.
VOX the same...