Spain, France & Germany: The New Powers of Europe?
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With the UK out, there's a space in Europe for a new country to enter the unofficial 'top 3'. In this video we outline why Spain could be the one to fill the gap; running through the leadership, policies & lack of euro-skepticism.
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From a Portuguese citizen to any Spanish people who may read this.
Well done and congratulations in getting where you are now I mean this with lots of respect and sincerity.
I
hope we can pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and do as you have too.
Lots of love to my Spanish brothers and sisters!
We should be only one thing "Iberia" and with time we will be the same and bring Latin America united.
thank you my friend
Amamos vocês! Sou de Madri mas agora eu sou parte também da lusofonia, irmãos até o final.
Um abraço para os meus irmãos portugueses 🇵🇹❤️🇪🇸
We also obser how Portugal has gotten better as time went by.
Go Spain!!!! Much love to our brothers, from Italy 🇮🇹 We will reach the top!! 🇪🇺❤️
You have our support! But now Italy should very carefully look at its election! go Italy
Latin Brothers, Italians are our true brothers in Europe, along with Portugal and maybe, even not being latins, Greece
Love the message, but you can't.
Si ,pero mañana!😜
Spanish here, I think I see too much positivity around. In Spain we re always complaining and arguing, but about the short term problems. Do you want to know our truly worst demons?
-1º Our constitution is an inheritance of a dictatorship model of state. Politicians have too much freedom to operate and they just know how to spend money from the printer (many times insidiusly bad) and thus, bureaucratic fat, thus corruption, thus growing and unstable public debt.
-2º The countryside is getting dangerously empty.
-3º The demographic issue (the biggest issue) is not being addressed at all because 20-30 years from know is not a problem for nowadays politicians.
-4º The bad education system of the last 2-3 centuries has led us to stupid separatist regionalisms.
As a German I would welcome Spain to make bigger plays within the EU.
I think the Spanish people can offer a healthy counterweight to our German mentality.
We love the german people in Spain.
Healthy counterweight?
How?
Our govern is a beggar of Germany.
what do you mean with german mentality
@@arm.tkyan1 There is obviously no chance to sum it up in a few sentences.
But an obvious one for example would be the German work ethic and many things attached to it.
It has positive sides, quality of work and training for example, but a toxic work culture and a too stoic acceptance of unacceptable circumstances is also part of it.
@@AliothAncalagon i agree. its just weird hearing it from a german. you are definetly different. lets let it there
Love Spain from Serbia 🇷🇸❤️🇪🇸
We love serbian people too. Kosovo is Serbia forever.
I hope serbia takes back kosovo
there is a third reason too (from my perspective having lived there for three years over 20 years ago). Spaniards see the north of Europe as bringing wealth, stability and success. They have many concerns with European policy such as on their ag markets. But they see Spain alone as disastrous. This is part of the Spanish psyche. An intensely proud nation that is also intensely modest about its place in the world.
A key difference with Britain is that Spain has had a far longer time to get used to its post imperial status. The empire did not set on its empire, either, once upon a time. But there are no surviving Spaniards who remember any of this being current. As such, they are way more realistic than Brits about creating success outside the world's largest consumer market
No sé si eres español pero lo que dices es muy importante. If you speak english please translate this.
España también fue la primera potencia mundial, la diferencia es que nosotros nos hemos visto caer en picado hasta lo más fondo con golpes de estado continuos, una incapacidad de mantener estabilidad y después una dictadura de 40 años. Los británicos, quienes con su idioma siendo la lengua franca mundial y el poderío de estados unidos (que tiene grandes lazos con Inglaterra), aún no se dan cuenta de que aunque en el pasado su país haya sido tremendamente importante, en la actualidad uno tiene que ponerse en perspectiva y darse cuenta de que Inglaterra es pequeña junto a titanes asiáticos y potencias económicas (actuales y futuras) como China, EEUU, India, Brasil, Hispanoamérica, Rusia y la propia UE. Si siguen así, es probable que el brexit les salga bien (volviéndose un país rico pero no tendrán poder mundial) o se lleven una galleta muy fuerte en la cara. También hay que decir que las generaciones mayores de +50 años por razones biológicas van a morir y estos son los que más votaron a favor del brexit, imponiendo de cierta forma su voluntad en los que más lo van a experimentar que son los jóvenes de 40- años
Definitivamente mi comentario más largo.
When I see all that tradition around E II R, I wonder, if british imperial heritage stands in the way of a realistic view on present developments. Germany needed some time to cut ties with their past (at least 20 years after WW II), and she profited much from that. France did that before, and Spain did it after Franco. UK and Russia are probably those European nations, who had no chance to learn from the past, as they were never defeated on the same level. That's a pro for tradition, but a big con for sanity... ;-)
The UK had a lot of potential of trade agreements with the Commonwealth and America.
@@walidmouad7688 Google Translate hace un trabajo decente, con la excepción de la frase "una galleta fuerte en la cara", que Google traduce literalmente
Lo siento si mi español no es perfecto- Soy de los Estados Unidos y, aunque sé un poco de español, tuve que usar Google Translate para gran parte de este mensaje. De todos modos, te deseo un buen día!
Did some Google translation here (lol, it translated the nick names):
[Walid Mouad]
I don't know if you are Spanish but what you say is very important. If you speak English please translate this.
Spain was also the first world power, the difference is that we have seen ourselves plummeting to the bottom with continuous coups, an inability to maintain stability and then a 40-year dictatorship. The British, who with their language being the world's lingua franca and the might of the United States (which has great ties to England), still do not realize that although their country has been tremendously important in the past, today one has You have to put yourself in perspective and realize that England is small next to Asian titans and economic powers (current and future) such as China, the US, India, Brazil, Latin America, Russia and the EU itself. If they continue like this, it is likely that Brexit will go well for them (becoming a rich country but they will not have world power) or they will take a very strong cookie in the face. It must also be said that the generations over 50 years old for biological reasons are going to die and these are the ones who voted the most in favor of Brexit, imposing their will in a certain way on those who are going to experience it the most, who are the young people of 40 - years
Definitely my longest comment.
[Jig Up]
@Walid Mouad Google Translate does a decent job, with the exception of the phrase "a strong cookie in the face", which Google translates literally
Sorry if my Spanish isn't perfect- I'm from the United States and although I know a little Spanish, I had to use Google Translate for much of this message. Anyway, I wish you a nice day!
In my opinion, another reason why there's no euro-scepticism here in Spain is that there's always been a sort of "low self esteem" syndrome in Spanish views of Europe. It's always been said that other European countries know how to manage themselves much better than we do, it's almost become a self imposed stereotype, which is why I believe that most people come to the conclusion that Spain would be lost without the EU because we would burst into chaos without the "Germans straightening us a bit".
Yeah its odd, the nations with the greatest history are ashamed of it.
@@franknwogu4911 well no, it’s not to do with some distant history. Spain’s economy hasn’t been strong for decades. It’s built on fragile British tourism for a good part of it
Spain *is* pretty useless tbh. Just look at their support for Ukraine. Less than Latvia!
@@jamesshone1677 that is because of Austria's failure to maintain peace with others power from that time, also there was not enough money to keep up with the defensive wars (100 years of wars), the quinto real that arrived from America's was the only way to pay the salaries that has become in debts. There was not peace for Spain was sun king was alive and then the last Austrias died and Spanish war succession began and the new dinasty, the bourbons got the responsability to pay the huge debts inherited from the Austria's dinasty. And what is worts, the territory s front central Europe and Italy were lost.
Same thing happens with Portugal, to an extent. People have lost faith in this country, and for good reason.
I am Argentine living in Spain and I guarantee you that Spain is a country with enormous potential, the people are friendly and they have a perfect geographical position, an enviable climate and resources like no other would wish. You just need to realize and put the rudder in the right direction, GO SPAIN!
Spain must have the capacity to promote policies that strengthen the Spanish-speaking community, extend a hand to Latin America to be the gateway to Europe in terms of trade, labor, etc.
In addition, with the correct policies, the problems of "future low population" would be solved. There are more than 300 million people with a very similar cultural framework and with a great desire to progress, willing to give everything.
(This that I have just mentioned is well known by Americans... where Latinos represent a third of their economic strength... honest and hard-working people willing to give everything to have a better life, where their country could not offer it. .)
That's what they say about Argentina lol
@@bruhbutwhytho2301 friendly people?
I'm in Romania and I wouldn't want to have Spain's water resources, especially without the North West.
When it comes to resources, Spains major oil and gas reserves have dried up. With climate change a good part of Spain is turning into a desert.
As a Spaniard, you are spot on with your affirmation that Spaniards see the EU as equivalent to the functioning of democracy, values of shared diversity (one which is specially blatant within our own country) and a drive for Spain to be in its current state. We are fully identified with the idea of Europe because historically for us the EU means democracy, freedom, peace and prosperity.
We are people who identify strongly with our region, then our contry, then Europe and all those identities are compatible in most cases.
As a portuguese, when the government is criticized, it tries to brush off that criticism by saying "the EU aproved it".
This is because the people trust more the EU than the national government.
more or less 20% of the parliament is allways euroceptic, but its related to extreme left parties that are anti-EU, anti-US and anti-NATO, despite not talking or adversitising it directly, because when they are clear about it, they lose support, like, more recently, the Portuguese Comunist Party, that activelly supported Russian in March, and lost even more points in the polls, forcing it to foucous on organizing strikes.
You just show you don't understand democracy at all if you think the EU is one.
@@ashleyfunnell9132 That is literally not what OP said.
so being mainly Fascists you see the EU as democracy?
For me Britain represent those things too but doesn’t require EU to give it to us
Much love to Spain from Germany ❤
Spain also does well with soft power. Spanish movies and series are quite populair throughout Europe
True. Even in Asia. Money Heist aka La Casa de Papel just got a Korean Remake.
Here Turkish soaps, dubbed into Latin American Spanish, are the rage.
@@ab9840 Eso depende porque ahora las novelas que se ve en España son de Colombia .
The fact we now talk about Spain as a powerhouse is incredibly prideful for me.
Half a world away we don't see much about Spain except for Netflix TV shows. This was enlightening. Sounds like they are doing a lot of good things.
@Hanííbą́ą́z Spain does not have 40% unemployment lol
@Hanííbą́ą́z With that nick name you know a lot about Spain... for sure, bot... 😉😉😉.
Anyways, you said some true in your lies...: Spaniards... we are also very good at marketing 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇺💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻😤😤😤.
All the rest you puked... fallacies and bs 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻😎😎😎.
@@MrPeanut656565 it’s closer to 23%
Owen Garner No, and why say that when you could quickly google it? It’s at 13-14% right now, sure not low, but I’m confident we’ll get that number down as we complete the post covid recovery.
Funny enough Spanish is second most spoken language in the world. It is quite advantage for businesses from latin countries. There are many things Spain can take advantage from, and even now is considered like very heathy country with long life expectancy, location geopolitically, industries of hi tech in mentioned Catalonia, very good developed railways and road systems, and so on
Spanish language is really beautiful
I'd say fourth most spoken language, no ? Mandarin, Hindi, English, then Spanish.
@@alioshax7797 it does not meant to be which language is spoken more by amount of people rather which is most influential. hindi and mandarine are not imo considered world languages.
@@petervlcko4858 Sure, but they're still more spoken than Spanish, so it's not the second most spoken language in the world. The second international language, maybe.
Spanish is the second most spoken language as a mother tongue. 600 million speakers Mexico 130, US 54, Colombia 52, Argentina 51, Spain 48, Peru 32, Venezuela 28, Chile 21, Guatemala 19, Ecuador 18…etc
I was a child when Spain entered the EU in 1986 (EEC at the time, I think) and I remember how relieved I felt, thinking that being in the EU made it harder for the army to try a military coup like the one they did in 1981 (that was unseccesful, obviously)
I'm irish and i also remember as this was the beginning of the annual 'spanish invasion' here in dublin when all the students came to learn english! great times! I now speak spanish.... haha!
I'm torn on military coups... I wish the one in Turkey was successful.
@@derekscanlan4641 Don't forget the Italians 🤣🤣🤣.
Thanks to those summers, you learnt Spanish, and I learnt to say: What's the Craic!! ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻😎😎😎.
@@TitusAzzurro Turkey has a special history with military coups, there secularism and Westernisation is often brought by the army while elected governments often slide towards Islamism. In most other countries coups are bad.
@@augth Thanks for confirming my weird feeling about Turkey and the military there. I will look the history up. I'm curious to find out if Ataturk got into power with a coup... that would be something.
If you're looking for another interesting coup I'll add this one: Myanmar. I'm still torn about the military coup there. The elected government was getting too cozy with the CCP and my *feeeeeelings* tells me the military isn't that fond of China. Of course things change and I'm not that knowledgable on the subject so perhaps i'm 100% wrong.
My casa was built by a Spaniard who had worked as a builder in Germany.
He chose the spot like a Spaniard and built like a German.
I´ve lived in both countries, loved them both, but Spain is where I´ve hung my hat.
I may be English and a bit eccentric, but I´m included here, like never before.
Thank you Spain.
Enhorabuena, pero te preocupas de hablar español? Porque muchos compatriotas no dicen. Hola, gracias, si, no..... ni lo básico.
@@albertomartin7576La gente local me perdona mucho mis esfuerzos por hablar el idioma y normalmente puedo hacerme entender. En saludo.
@@kerryburns6041 me alegro sinceramente, hace 3 días estuve desayunando en un local del puerto de Torrevieja, regentado por dos británicas, una mayor y otra joven. Ni siquiera dijeron hola, por supuesto nada de gracias, "yes" en vez de "si". Todo lo pedí y tramité en inglés. Para mi es una falta de respeto que yo no cometo cuando voy a otro país. Por lo menos las 10 o 20 palabras que se pueden aprender en dos días.
Y esta señoras encima tienen un negocio en España.
No son las únicas. Soy navegante y he visto esa actitud en varios británicos.
@@albertomartin7576Evito la costa y prefiero el tranquilo pueblo de Lanjarón y Órgiva cuando quiero algo de emoción. Disfruto mis interacciones con los comerciantes locales, es una ciudad amigable.
@@kerryburns6041 buena zona. Bonita y estrategicamente situada. Un cordial saludo.
The Spain-Latin America link is one of those advantages that Europe has to leverage if it wants to compete with powerhouses such as China or the US. Same with france-africa ties, etc.
Many see the lack of a unifying language or culture as a weak point of the EU as opposed to other world powers, but it could be and should be used as a unique strength of the bloc, if we want to compete with more unified economic powers such as China and the US.
It has been such a missed opportunity.
Most nationalist citizens in Spain who are euroesceptic usually call for leaving the EU and strengthening ties to Latin America more instead. I dont see why can't we have both things. Latin Americans are very hard working and they respect European beliefs and traditions. They integrate much better than Muslims for example and they provide great opportuinities for trade and mutual development. Europe is the motherland of the Americas. Both sides of the Atlantic should be connected instead of letting China or Russia take over that influence.
@@neochris2 I'll tell you why: because the european project is incompatible with Latin America. We will not be colonized again. Try that with the arabs
English is the universal language of Europe...Europe also is very lucky when it comes to language as most countries in the world speak their languages, whether it be Portuguese, Spanish, English, French. This is also one of the main reasons why Europe and the US control the social world and will continue to do in the future.
@@neochris2 Europe is not the motherland of Americas. It was its invader, and we feel the damage it has caused to this day. We mean no ill towards today's europeans, but they should stop pretending like they are the good guys.
@@neochris2 I’m Guatemalan but my grandfather’s family and himself were Spanish immigrants. They found it very easy to adapt to Guatemalan culture and life because it wasn’t too different from their own. Latin America has multiple similarities with Spain and some even view Spain as our ancestral motherland. There’s a lot of room for us to cooperate with each other. Hell, us Latin Americans even have a fast pass to Spanish and European citizenship just for being citizens of former Spanish colonies. How cool is that.
As a Spaniard, I mostly agree which what has been presented here. Our commitment to the EU is tangled to our commitment to our democracy, and most people in Spain would like a more integrated EU.
I also concurs in the capital importance of Spain (and Portugal) in the pivoting to EU politics to Africa and LATAM/Caribbean.
Finally, I would like to add the importance of Spain in some Social legislation applied in the EU, as we were one of the first countries in grant equal marriage and adoption rights in the early 2000s.
Spain has spent a lot of time cleaning and tyding at home, but the time is now to step up and take our place in the commitment to the EU Project.
This video made me want to move to Spain
@JoStark it's time for Portugal to step up as well. If Ireland can go from economic near-collapse to one of the highest GDP and attractive countries in the EU, there's no reason Portugal, due to its geography and tourism, couldn't leverage those benefits to greater pan-European influence. Brexit has created opportunity...for those outside the UK. I wouldn't want to live in England right now.
Independence for Catalonia
As a Spaniard, this is exactly the type of video I want to see
By more integrated in EU Is that like all Eu countries becoming states like in the USA but more democratic as a social democracy.
Here's hoping that Spain's plans for the EU and the World at large work out
It won't. You'll see
Spain will be better off if it'd look towards Central and South America - not to Europe as it is a dying continent.
@@castellanos6436 it’s not a dying continent, it’s the richest continent full of highly educated humans. Yes it’s not up and coming full of resources, but it still has massive potential. Imo
Yeah, I think it's so important that we work together with non-western countries. Otherwise, we'll lose our power in the world and will be dependent on the whims of the at that point powerful.
@@user-gs8jv4oq6w Asia has more educated people. Working on a Office is not as productive as making chips for example. Europe is destined to failure
Don't forget that Spain also has an enormous renewable energy potential. New solar plants are popping up here every day. Spain will probably be Europes biggest renewable energy exporter in the near future.
Honestly Spain is the only new “power” in Europe. France and Germany have been dominating the continent for years. With the UK gone, Spain taking its place sounds logical
It will amount to nothing
@@yurichtube1162 you won't
Ahem.. like Italy wasn't already there lol
Spain, the country that barely equals what gives and takes from EU funds. Yeah..
What. Italy is much bigger both in terms of population and economy. I am a Spaniard but this video surprised me tbh
As an Italian I feel ashamed by my country's Euroscepticism, as the major parties (right now) are completely blind about the EU's role for our nation, even as it is one if not the MOST important gear of my nation. I hope our nation can change her mind and move once again towards EU cooperation and not just bluntly attacking our benefactors for an handful of votes.
Glory and greetings from your southern brother, may the EU become closer, bigger, better and more democratic!
The EU isn't even in third place anymore
This channel notoriously talk about Italy always in bad terms, I literally never seen a positive video about it except for some sporadic mentions.
Italy is and will be for many decades ahead the 3rd economy of the Union. So this video is pointless and misleading.
@@lucaesposito6896 no, this is a eu video, and poland now, and italy fairly soon probably are not in the to count list umtil they choose a pro eu goverment instead of popilist, you can be conservative, france for example, but still be pro eu, if not Italy is getting hungaried until locals realizate their mistake and correct it
@@lucaesposito6896 That 3rd place is shaking, my country need reforms and stabilization, i am tired of our government idiotic moves that make us all Italians look clowns in front of the rest of the world.
@@jonC1208 I agree, right now populist governments chose Eurosceptist view towards Europe because older generations (bigots) sees Europe as a Problem more than a benefit (The Euro disaster, 2008 crisis, and the missmemagment of the migrant crisis and other "problems"), but the time is making his course and the clowns that self proclaimed themselves "politicians" will be replaced by a younger leve, and younger people usually tend to see the EU for what it is, flawed, yes for sure, but a massive benefit in the end, until then we must stop retard parties and governments from making downright trash moves.
Thank you Spain for believing in Europe! We will get through this together.
With love, your northern neighbours. 🇫🇷❤🇪🇦
Thanks to you and Europe for everything.
I mean, I am greatful by your comment, but your president has the construction of the pipeline connecting the Iberian peninsula to the rest of europ gas pipeline network
Unlock the pipeline lol!!! And good match yesterday 🏀
Cool, now let us build the gas pipeline.
@@pocholo151299 I hope Macron will make that happen, but alas, I have little control over politics myself. All I want is for the people of Europe to stay united. 🤝🇪🇺
I’m a Hungarian living in Spain for 5 years now and I’m just so proud of this country and being part of it. I think the biggest strength of this country is its people and how mature its society is. Yes, they do have a minority of extremists but the majority of the people is very open, accepting and human rights focused. Its government is very people focused and trying to support wherever is possible, sometimes maybe even too much. Spanish people complain they have a lot of corruption but I just usually tell them about Hungary and our awful Orban and they start appreciating what they have😅 Yes, they have corruption but the politicians tend to make sure that they also take care of their citizens starting with a top notch health care system. In general, I think the values of its people and its country’s political environment what makes them such a great nation. (Excluding VOX ofc) Spain was a great nation with huge colonies yet they tend to be very humble. I lived in the UK for a few years and there I got the feeling that they feel above the rest of Europe. Spain does not have this. In general, I’m just in love with its people, culture and I’m happy they’re taking over the UK’s position as they can help to build a more people-focused, happier EU for its citizen.
@@thomasmeyer1408 thanks for sharing, I didn’t know about the viceroy🤗 although I see you managed to pick out the least important part of my message😀
Thank you so much for such an honest and accurate description of my country.
@@antalito3047 Si estaban manejados los Virreinatos por Vireyes que eran de diferentes orígenes desde Nativos ,mestizos ,criollos etc .
Si se mezclaron y aquí los mestizos hijos de Nativos Americanos+Españoles seguimos aquí .
Espero que España tenga su nombre como lo fue antes.
Muchos países Americanos Hispanos estamos en apoyo de Reunificación con España ,La Madre Patria España .
Espero que todo salga bien a España porque todo lo que pasa a España para mal o para bien siempre influye a los Paises Américanos Hispanos 🧐
I have the same opinion ❤
You just made my day seeing Spain like this. Greetings from Bilbao
I'm french and I agree with that video. Go Spain ! We need you on the big boys table
Thats fine but do remember who saved France's ass in WW2, You French have a short Memory...
Tout a fait allez España
@@manchesterutdfan66 Soviet Union?
Then please tell macron to not fucking veto the midcat pipeline, the mediterranean corridor and in general any project of infrastructure that we propose
@@user-gi7vs2rp2q Hydrogen
Great analysis and reporting on the big 3 with a focus on Spain emerging in the EU to play a vital role and to explore integrating Africa to become economically empowered to meet their needs.
Don't be mistaken. Spain is not powerful in the EU...will never be. Current government is a total joke. Half of the country is so leaning to the left that they so much...right at the edge and limit that they don't like to work and be given something...and there's a big percentage of populatiom dreaming on working for the goverment. We'll never run even our country.
@@franciscocabrerabrito5945 it's good to give those who are insignificant a chance to lead at times so their true potential can be unlocked to bring blessings and progress in life.
@@waldensmith4796 you are right. But they took the chance to show how incompetent they are. They are manipulating the media and this is the closest we've been to a comunist south american country in years. Total joke.
By explore, you mean exploit, I’m assuming.
@@waldensmith4796 The same can be said of Africa, but I guess they don’t matter
I had no idea Spain was doing so much to advance the EU. In English speaking media in North America, Spain is barely ever mentioned at all.
Can I tell you a secret? English speaking media is a mess! Almost all over the world. TLDR is one of the unicorn exceptions!
The reasons lie probably in the importance and reach of english media. Also, foreign audience won't check local media due to language barriers (I do consume both English and local media, so the difference is easy to see). If you compare it to local media, you'll probably find huge discrepancies, and a guess, in most cases, the English speaking media gets it wrong. In this special case, it additionally has usually an anti-EU bias.
@Captain Planet trust me body its not due to imperialism, its due the fact that Spain is a nonfactor in a dying Globalist empire
I have met some Americans that did not know that Spain was a European country. It is a mistery for me why American medias are so depreciative towards Spain. It might go back to the black legend propaganda which continues
@Captain Planet Let's be fair - we are largely irrelevant to them. We are very focused on Europe, so all our interactions with NA are filtered through it. They could hear a bit more of us from our interaction with South America, but the way we deal with them is very different too.
No sense talking about a country you interact indirectly with when you have stuff going on in a daily basis with China, Russia, Taiwan, UK or Australia.
On the flip side, this government is the worst on internal affairs. With the worst prime minister of Spain's history, even worse than Zapatero.
I'm not sure Spain is interested in "emerging" like that. Spain has emerged long time ago in variables that, those countries obsessed with only one variable (GDP) have missed. This eternal economic and influence competition is absurd.
Spain is interested in life. It's a country to actually live a good, healthy, and happy life. A country interested in non-rushed friendly relations with other countries alike.
Some sufficient defense capabilities, and that's it. Leave the race and competition to others that seem obsessed with that.
The problem is France.
France does not want a Pipeline from Spain to Germany trough his territories.
France does not want the trade deal with Mercosur (Argentina, Brasil, Uruguay and Paraguay) that was negotiated for 20 years with heavy support from Germany and Spain.
Depending on the issue, everyone is a problem. You can't have 27 countries agreeing on everything.
France defends its interests on these issues. They don't want a deal with the Mercosur, because it threatens their own agricultural sector, with is politically and economically quite relevant, and they don't wang a pipeline because they'd love to become themselves the entry point for foreign gas going to the German market with their LNG ports in Le Havre and Dunkirk. Just like Spain is pushing for it to become this entry point. It's just two countries fighting (peacefully, and within the legal framework) for the same piece of meat.
@@alioshax7797 I mean... obviously but for me France still is overprotective of their interests. In my point of view they're even hurting themselves in the long run.
@@RodrrdoR Maybe, we'll see. That's always a tough choice in the EU, when there is decisions where you must chose between your national interests and those of other member states. Everyone wants to contribute to the EU, obviously, but at the end of the day, you also have responsabilities about the jobs of your citizens.
Signing the Mercosur might be good for the EU in general, but it will still cost French farmers their jobs.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition
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When you have to make up history to argue bullshit. Find out about the real inquisitors, e.g. Germany.
You guys really should lernt about what "leyenda negra" is. How English Empire defame Spanish Empire becouse both were fighting for power in Europe and the world. Why everybody speak about spanish inquisición is a perfect example
@@Ricardo-bo8xv Spain and Portugal did have inquisitions. They are more famous than other inquisitions because these countries were worried with Jewish and Muslim converts, since the Iberian peninsula had pretty much decided to expel/forcefully convert them, so they invested some effort into it.
It's not a pretty part of history, but it's well documented.
Obviously other countries had similarly terrible initiatives, but that doesn't change actually history.
@@Ricardo-bo8xv It's a Monty Python's joke that has become a kind of meme.
Well done Spain . Love from Germany. Hopefully in future all our EU family is growing. So we have a much bigger impact in the world.
We need a european army (with ICBM in all countries) and leave the NATO.
europeans strong together! we have a shared destiny!
Spain grew by 5,5% in 2022 that's huge for a relatively big European country. We get those figures from little countries, but Spain wow 🤩
I agree with Spain's policy and probably many others in Finland too. For example, Finland has traditionally promoted EU-Africa co-operation.
When I get retired I will move from Spain to Finland, because it is the land of the Finish. 🇪🇸😚🇫🇮
you know who helps africa...russia and china..Hey Africa we'll only help you if you don't by cheap Russian wheat...if europe wants to co-operate with anybody fairly then they have to stop being the lap dog of the US
@Paseos por Madrid Bro i love spain growing, love you guys 🇪🇸🇫🇮
@Paseos por Madrid or if you live in Arlit, Niger, and see what Europe brings to your country through "cooperation. Africa should look to Asia and leave colonizers to their machinations.
@Paseos por Madrid In 1449, a Toledo edict made racial discrimination legal.
The phrase limpieza, “purity of blood,” came into common use in the sixteenth century. The phrase was understood literally, not metaphorically: Medical belief held that blood was the principal of four humors in the body, because it circulated the other humors. Blood, therefore, played an essential role in establishing a person’s character.
Along with slavery, Spain exported limpieza. In 1552, the Spanish Crown decreed that emigrants to America must furnish proof of limpieza. The Spanish deployed limpieza throughout Spanish America and the Portuguese adopted it in Brazil. In its new environment, limpieza began to mutate, beginning to refer to an absence of black blood as well as an absence of Jewish blood.
In both cases, the idea was that “impure” blood could taint a person’s character. In 1604, historian Fray Prudencio de Sandoval compared the impure natures of blacks and Jews: “Who can deny that in descendants of Jews there persists and endures the evil inclination of their ancient ingratitude and lack of understanding, just as in the Negroes [there persists] the inseparability of their blackness. For if the latter should unite themselves a thousand times with white women, the children are born with the dark color of the father. Similarly, it is not enough for the Jew to be three parts aristocrat or Old Christian, for one Jewish ancestor alone defiles and corrupts him.”
The main target of limpieza in the Americas was black blood. Limpieza was used to discriminate against Africans to justify race slavery and enforce the distinctions that a race slave system required.
The operation of limpieza in the Americas mimicked its viral spread in Spain. Limpieza excluded persons with black blood from civil and religious offices and various fields of commercial endeavor. It was not until 1707 that persons of African descent could take up Holy Orders. Royal decrees barred university admissions to people with African blood.
From Spanish America limpieza expanded to influence racial attitudes in the British colonies. By the time slaves were introduced in Virginia, the Spanish had over a century of experience with slavery. The American colonies looked to Latin America to help them develop this peculiar institution. As the historian Alden Vaughn notes: “Because the Latin American model of lifetime, inheritable servitude was apparent to everyone-Spanish and Portuguese colonists held a quarter of a million black slaves by 1617-Virginians had no need to invent a new status.”
The vocabulary the English colonies adopted for race had roots in the Spanish colonies. “Negro” came into English from Spanish in the mid-16th century and “mulatto” a half century later. “Sambo”-in Spanish a mix of “black” and “Indian”-became a derogatory word for blacks in English.
Even the word “race” came from Spain, which referred to people of Jewish descent. As the social anthropologist Audrey Smedley explains in Race in America: “In fact, ‘race’ did not appear in the English language … with reference to human groups until the seventeenth century. . . It is quite likely that the English adopted the term ‘race’ from the Spanish.”
While the Spanish used “blood” in the racial context by the sixteenth century, the English examples of this period pertain to family relationships of aristocratic descent. It was not until the eighteenth century that the English colonies used “blood” in a racial context.
so yeah, you guys kind of created the concept of "race"..which didn't exist before. Racism in the modern sense kind of exists because of these actions Spanish officials took...so I wouldn't say you guys are more innocent than any other European country lol
It's about time. Spain hasn't been an influential power since the early to mid 1800s, good to see them coming back.
why is it good lol? they werent very nice when they were in power
@@pyrefly7575 They were the least worst thing that get out of Europe to colonize
@@pyrefly7575 way nicer than the english
@@pyrefly7575 this comment is a good example of why we still need to fight the "cultural battle" against the Black Legend
@@pyrefly7575 lol there are still spaniards like me who are proud of our adventorous past.
This video really sums up perfectly why fighting for the common good is beneficial. Spain has played this brilliantly and has set itself up to be a vital part of the EU. It's a shame the UK was unable to realize it occupied a position that was at least as good.
UK held a much better position at first, its priviledges within EU legislation put it in a very good position to lead it and it kind of did for a while actually, but it seems it got to its head...
@@thespanishinquisition4078 Now we don't even have much reason to speak English in the EU so I anticipate the language dynamic will slowly change to using the other big languages. French, Spanish, German and Italian will likely become more common
@@thespanishinquisition4078 the UK didn’t have that great a position, they literally couldn’t get the changes they wanted. The UK also got the least value out of the EU compared to any other country in the EU.
@@neochris2 I doubt that, the value of English globally is only increasing and there is no truly dominant country in the EU to enforce its language.
@@maxdavis7722 In Europe I dont think English will be increasing. At absolute best it will stay where it is now.
As a spaniard that studied in Germany, I can confirm that everything in this video is spot on aside from one vital aspect that was omitted, our relationship with France. Every policy that was mentioned in this video was rejected at first by the French government and even now, with the energy crisis that the EU is going through, Macron has rejected the gas pipeline that was proposed by Scholz and Sanchez in order to connect Spain with Central Europe and be able to supply them with gas. Moreover, 2 days ago France just announced that they won't supply Italy with electricity in the next 2 years pleading that they need to do maintenance works in their nuclear reactors ( same excuse used by Putin, what a coincidence). Needless to say, they want to keep the electricity for them due to the energy crisis and they have asked Spain to create more connections between both countries to import even more electricity from us, since it is cheaper than producing it in France.
All in all, France is only going to support policies that benefit them and most of the policies mentioned in this video, even if they greatly benefit the EU as a whole, they don't particularly benefit France so the key to pass them will be the ability of the Italian German and Spanish governments to come together and put pressure on France to give in. And this, will become harder and harder with the rise of the far right and ultranationalism that we've seen in France in the recent years.
Good point!
Interesting addition to the video.
Yeah, Frence is really anoying...
oh... that's interesting
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Spain is the next Economic EU powerhouse. As is the only country that does not solely depend on Russia. As a US or British or Asian Company, where in the world can I can set up a business and invest at the same time enjoy Europe life, have sunny weather and head to the loveliest vacation beaches in Europe, plus not expensive food and living, that why lots of tech companies are coming here. Now even hospitals in Madrid have english speakers already
To answer your question: Portugal.
Ok, to be fair I do agree with most of your assessment, and Spain and Portugal have so much cooperation than we're basically conjoined twins anyway. But yeah lol, we will have to compete with them for investment while having basically the same benefits and issues (and they're winning the race, at least in proportion, because they offer a better fiscal plan. But I don't much care who "wins" anyway, we both grow, we both win, we can both celebrate, let's keep the competition healthy! ;) ).
France doesnt depend on russia at all
I only really had the pleasure of dealing with Spaniards once..
I was in Paris. I was 30 and didn't know the addresses etc.
But I actually hit up with a bunch of Spanish girls. Maybe n their early twenties.
I knew no Spanish or French. They knew f all English.
But we improvised our own language and got by. An absolute bunch of dotes. Good Spain is getting strong. Spanish folk ROCK , imo x !
A decade ago the U.K. was a major player in the EU. Then due to the stupidity of Johnson and Farage, we are now an isolated sardine 20 miles from where the action is.
This change was easily visible in Germany in the last weeks. Not only were there important talks between our governments and joint conferences with different ministers. We also welcomed the Spanish royal family and participated in cultural exchange, for example during the Frankfurt book convention, where Spain was the Guest Country. Nearly all mayor newspapers published interviews with Spanish politicians and also published articles regarding Spanish art and culture.
No quiero ser metido ,ni indecoroso.
Pero si quiero saber qué decían los periódicos alemanes sobre la cultura Española y en general nuestra Historia.
Saludos cordiales 😀
Same in Spain with Germany. I'm not a Spaniard but I enjoy reading local newspapers and all of a sudden it was all about Germany, about visiting Germany, German art, museums, cars, influence... it was interesting.
Something was left unsaid in the video which should have featured, and that is the vast amount of EU development funding that Spain has received over the decades, since it joined the EU. Even nowadays Spain is still, by a little bit, a net receiver of EU funding.
A great deal of the support for the EU comes from the basic recognition that the EU lifted Spain to its current economic status after the decades of dictatorship, and also provided the political stability needed after the transition to democracy.
The argument about the EU keeping Spain united by preventing separatism is just bizarre to me. It's not there at all.
wrong. Spain is a net donor.
Totally agree. The Spanish Government has no need to worry about regions becoming independent, even IF they conducted legal referendums. Outside Spain too many people focus on the result of the illegal vote for Catalan Independence. They either ignore the fact that the two polls held by the Catalan Government earlier the same year indicated that not only was the majority of Catalans in favour of staying in Spain, but the number was in fact increasing. Thus they rushed through an illegal vote, that even their independent monitors were critical of, not least because anyone with a home printer could produce 'official' ballot papers. Furthermore, the vast majority of those opposed to independence took the advice of the Spanish Government to not vote, as it would only give the illegal vote more credibility. It's not surprising the Catalan Government doesn't want to hold a legal referendum, as they know they would lose.
Spaniards certainly use it to dismiss catalan dreams of independence though.
Regarding the current position of Spain within the EU, IMO we're punching way above our weight. We've always been, at best, a 2nd tier country in the EU, traditionally following the lead of either France or Germany depending on the situation, but rarely leading ourselves. The fact that currently Germany is not as vocal as it used to be under the new Scholz government (give it time and this will surely change), Italy is in turnmoil (this is almost a constant, but still nowadays they're far from the forefront of the EU), and Brexit has removed the UK from the equation has allowed Spain's voice to be heard better, all of this coupled with a more internationally proactive Spanish government at the moment (the reasons for this government being more proactive could be part of a different debate).
while It has weight down, I feel that the nationalism fear are still near of many people who saw the ETA attacks on the vasque country
Sure, it has finally disbanded, but not until 2011, that's more closer than you think.
I welcome Spains growing influence. They have been a teamplayer for a long time. Germany is not willing to lead and France is too eager without much to show for it. I think a stronger Spain would be a good counterbalance within the EU.
Bro we Germans do not want to lead because of our history we did to much bad stuff we are here now to give money and make the economy strong but someone else should lead
Like Spain, France or Italy
France too eager? Let’s face it, France should have a larger role relative to its military power and economy compared to Germany, who concentrate all the power in the EU yet only have catastrophic foreign policy (ie war in Ukraine and energy crisis), energy reforms (nuclear), immigration, loss of pride and culture… Germany has way too much power and they’re catastrophic, France should give it a go at leading the EU. WDYM France hasn’t much to show for it anyway?
@@aa6dcc It’s military power has been outstanding because Germany is a defeated nation, subject to self-humiliation and where militarism is not a generally accepted thing because the lost both World Wars, and that has created an arrogant France that only acts in it’s own interest, as already seen rejecting the construction of “MidCat”, a Gas pipeline between Spain and Germany through France, because they rather keep selling their nuclear energy to Germany while cutting economic ties between us and Germany, only because of their own interest, at least Germany isn’t yet the capital of Islamism in Europe.
@@suprimoklk8740 look at New Year's Eve in Germany. Let in one million Syrians in one year I think too no? You'll see about that last statement. The problem with Germany is they're way too self-centred, they act like nuclear energy is bad and then use coal for their energy, and then have the audacity to lecture France who's using CO2-free energy? Shameless. So don't talk about nuclear energy, you obviously don't know what you're talking about since Germany doesn't want any. They're a crippling demography. France is being way too nice with Germany, they are giving them power, help, diplomatic support when that's just not deserved; the disgrace that is the modern EU is catastrophic and that's because it's dominated by the Schnitzels. France is being nice with them despite is not being in their advantage, see the Aachen treaty for example. Why would France want a gas pipeline through its territory? Those Germans preferred to sell themselves for non renewable energy to the Russians anyway, plain, classic German incompetence. So yeah, if only France was acting more of its own interests. Unfortunately, they're too kind with Germany, and that's just a slap in the face because the Germans are just abusing them. Thank God their demography is crippling and that's temporary.
Give more powers to Spain to:
>take a big shit on Russia and their gas
>keep an eye on market opportunities in Africa for the future
>receive Christian, hard-working, non-exploding Latino migrants to work and pay for your retirement
How good is this deal, huh?
Wow, great content, as always extremely informative & telling, well done
I'm impressed with Spain's vision.
It makes sense to have a diversified energy supply as the EU migrates to green tech. America warned Germany for decades that relying on Russian natural gas was a shockingly bad idea, and now the bitter fruit is on the table. So kudos to Spain.
Considering the dire nature of Spanish demography and collapsing birth rate, it makes a lot of sense for Spain to get EU help to establish a compassionate program for refugees from Latin America. Investment in Africa and Latin America, and Caribbean is also wise and the Spanish are a natural leader.
seems like they want to retake that influence they had not that long ago.
It's ironic to notice that American intelligence & diplomacy has got better understanding of Europe's challenges than European counterparts themselves... On China and Russia Americans warned Europe many times before but Germany in particular looked the other way.
The level of european assistance in the Venezuelan refugee crisis is so negligible as to be arounding error
the US wanted Germany to buy LNG from US petrol companies. for pure selfish economic reasons. trouble was, LNG is much more expensive than pipeline gas. besides, buying Algerian gas is in no way morally superior to buying ruzzian gas once the war is over.
@@thirdbrother4018 Pues a los Americanos Hispanos siempre hemos tenido apego a España .
Otra cosa es que ahora se den cuenta los del mundo anglosajón
I'm Spanish and I have been reding the comment for a while, I'll just like to thank you all for the support and love you are showing to us! Avanti UE
The existing LNG infrastructure is a great point! Excited for Spain becoming more proactive and taking the lead
Indeed. Im also surprised by Pedro Sánchez political skills, he is able to find deals and make concesions to achieve greater goals. He was survived a scheme to get rid of him in his own party, and came out on top against all odds
@@astrumespanol He'd sell his own mother to stay one more month as president... his internal politics have been awful
Europe has given us a lot, as other say Spain has full commitment in Europe and we feel identified by Europe. This video opened my eyes about what my country has achieved so far. It is time to give back to Europe too, though slowly, still lots to do!!!!
😂 Your comment is hilarious.
"Spain, France & Germany: The New Powers of Europe?"
*The 17th century has entered the chat.*
As a Spaniard, it's not that we have ascended into the big 3, is just that the rest have sunk to our level😊
That's the most passive aggressiv comment I have read today!
Careful your Inferiority complex is showing 😬
@@Chrissy717 Isn't that the Spanish way? (Por lo menos el gallego...)
3rd spot is still Italy tho, regardless of what this youtuber is saying
@@lucaesposito6896 be as jealous as you want
Spain appears in almost all the maps in the center, it should be the bridge between all the communities
It once was... until Franco, actually.
No I'm not kidding. You're right that being on the center of the map is very much the reason why. Spain's ports have been key for Europe's imports and exports since... well heck the first time this happened was with Gadir being the gateway to africa and northern europe for the PHOENICIAN EMPIRE. So we're talking about the Bronze Age Collapse here.
Of course competition with Portugal caused variations here, but overall ever since Europe could sail the Iberian Peninsula was its core gateway. And indeed both Cadiz (the modern day name of Gadir) and Lisbon (Portugal's capital) have held the title "gateway to europe" over the years.
But with Franco came autarky and Spain's borders were completely closed. The gate was literally and metaphorically locked.
You may ask why we didn't recover after Franco's tenure. Well... The answer was the EU actually. But more concretely a certain member... UK. So fun fact. Thatcher when entering EU negotiated some... Frankly abusive terms that gave UK some ludicrous priviledges. Including control over their own docks. All of the EU followed a certain, very restrictive Import/Export regime, while UK had no restrictions. This is why Thatcher launched the program she called "gateway to europe", literally usurping that title from its ancient owners.
And that's precisely why since Brexit Spain's and Portugal's docks have shown near constant growth, even turning some net debtor cities into net donors (specially Cadiz itself which has had an astonishing economic growth) and EU has started plans to expand and ease the railway connection between these cities and the main continent.
So yeah... Spain and Portugal were once the bridge between europe and the world, and they're pretty quickly reclaiming that position, and indeed this is literally thanks to their position on the map and now the lack of... let's say unsavory competition.
It’s a shame Italy is struggling with populism. They would probably be stepping up even more than they are now. I would like to see Italy have a dominant role in Europe. It would be cool if Spain and Italy increased their cooperation too.
It's a bigger shame that Spain has socialists. I feel sorry for them.
Populism?
Patriotism is the correct word.
Spain and Italy must be patriot countries and stop the globalism.
Italy did the right thing voting right, if they remain in the UE I'd be even happier
I don't think Italy has the growing potential, the foregin relations and the cohesion to overcome Spain in becoming one of the big 3
don't sing our praises so soon; there's a big chance the far right might end up in the leading coalition next year. Worst case scenario, they might blockade Spain's foreign policy to further their asinine protectionist aspirations.
Amazing video! I'd love to see you focus on Italy and Poland too. I think the topic of ongoing changes in European leadership is worth discussing.
Poland is rather uncomplicated unfortunately - if only we could elect a govt that wouldnt be a dick to everyone around, we could be a great power in the EU as a lynchpin for our whole region. Somehow that's too hard for us though :/
I mean, Italy is a better country than Spain and Poland, we are a member country of the G7, the G20 and the third largest economy in the European Union.
0:47 - You guys changed the GDP from Germany and France. Germany is the one with 3.6 trillion and France the one with 2.5 trillion EUR.
they have 0 quality check
@@Gardstyle35 ikr
@@Gardstyle35 British standards ....
@@Gardstyle35 Or you know... their production pipeline for their semi-daily uploads on 5-or-something channels where they summarize complex topics to bite sized content may have something to do with it?
@@BlazeLycan so they dont have enouth quality check because they dont have enouth ressources or time to do it with the ressources at hand? Yea. thats my point. Sherlock.
As a British citizen liiving in Spain, I am very proud of my 'adopted' home - Britain has shot itself in the foot with Brexit. ¡Que viva España!
I have hope we can turn things around if we kick out the conservatives next election, though if we don't I am thinking of moving and Spain was one of the countries I was looking at moving too, I'm currently learning spanish and have been on two tours of spain and I'm looking to do a spanish course for two weeks in Spain as well. I haven't told anyone yet about my plans but I'm going to see how the general election goes first and have plans to travel to spain a lot more. I do have hope for the UK if we can kick the conservatives out though and I'll stay if that happens but if we don't then I'm off.
lol
About energy, it's not only the gas thing, but also Spain has a lot of potential for renewable energy, specially solar and wind power. But it's only really integrated with Portugal and not with the rest of continental Europe.
Actually, it is not. Portugal is an energy island dispite the salled "common market". Energy connections between Portugal and Spain make upm 7% of the total while Spain's connections to France make up 10% soon up to 15%. Gas wise, there was only one pipeline connecting Portugal with Spain (which no longer works) and there 2 between France and Spain with Midcat being discussed, making it the 3rd. Even the so called "Iberian Exception" proved that the needs of Portugal and those of Spain are extremely different and that is exactly because they were never "integrated" . The gas cap in Portugal irrelevant, while in Spain it was fundamental. All of that is whu Portugal is already building an underwater cable to Morroco, to curn that isolation. Spain is barrier to Portugal, it has always been. Even on the high speed train issues, Spain has been a burder that Portugal needs to surpass.
Great video. I hope we are up to the task!!
This is a typical British viewpoint. SOME country has to control the EU. This is like an obsession. There are 27 member states and Germany, France, Spain are important mmbers (by population, by contribution, etc) BUT this never meant that other countries voice is not heard. Next subject please.
Indeed. It is like they can only think of others in imperialism terms of conquerer/conquered. The mere idea of countries of similar size collaborating together is beyond their understanding.
typical British view on the EU. they always look for ways to exclude others and form 'leader clubs'. 47yrs membership and still they didn't learn how it works. the EU is build on consensus and every country counts. majority votes exists but even there the smaller countries can block the big ones
As a Spaniard I strongly agree with what you have said. The important thing is that cohesion and joint work benefit us all, that we can live in peace and make the world at least a little better. Life is very short, better enjoy it as brothers.
Los Ingleses siempre con su supremasismo Inglés sometían a la misma UE como si ellos tenían la última palabra y esa se hacía . Y no muy equivocados.
Ahora que se largaron , los demás trabajaremos más en hermandad y tranquilos y no tener al niño bullying Inglés haciéndonos .
Lets go Spain🎉 love from 🇲🇽
Fantastic overview in such a short amount of time. ¡¡¡¡¡Muy bien!!!!!!!
Bonne vidéo!!! Très engageant...
Great video. Just a slight correction. There are already 2 gas pipelines connecting Spain with France through the Basque Country and Navarra. Spain is now currently pushing for a third one through Catalonia.
Ni se les ocurra por Cataluña ,hasta diría por Aragón que es más cerca a Francia que une Valencia, Cataluña y Madrid .
Ya tenemos a esos de altivos como para que se les suba más sus egos por las nubes
@@Merry19ss Tiene que ser Cataluña porque las tuberias son mucho mas baratas si son por mar que si son por tierra. Y aragon mucho mar no es que tenga. Y por cierto el contrato para la tuberia ya se ha firmado. Se va a hacer, y alleluya por ello.
No te preocupes por los Catalanes. La tuberia en si no hace dinero, solo transporta el petroleo, los ingresos van a las refinerias y los silos que lo venden. Asi que no les va a subir mucho el ego. Y a españa en su conjunto (incluyendolos a ellos les guste o no) le va a venir muy bien. Especialmente a madrid que es donde tiene sede la parte española del proyecto.
Aun asi en mi opinion tendriamos que haberla hecho desde valencia por baleares hasta italia, habria sido un poco mas caro, pero saltarnos el politiqueo de francia y cataluña vale todo el oro del mundo, y al menos hasta ahora italia ha sido fiable como aliada, seguro que harian su parte sin demasiados problemas.
I was a bit shocked by the headline but I find the reasoning very convincing.
Hello TLDR!! Very good video!! So pleased of your perceptions and explanations as a Spaniard🇪🇸🇪🇺 myself!!
Anyways, if you allow me to, I would like to add to the viewers some little clarifications that could make your statements even more precise:
- Well, when you say that 90% of our gas comes from Algeria, I think you would like to refer by pipeline, and is like that, for obvious geographical reasons. But you must bear in mind that Spain has more than 1/3 of the regasification capacity of the whole Europe due to its size and its nature of peninsula, together with our Portuguese🇵🇹🇪🇺 brothers.
That fact turns us into an energetic island, basically, only connected (aside from the own Algeria, obviously) by pipeline to Morocco in the South (to whom we provide gas nowadays from our regasication plants, from contracts not coming from Algeria, due to internal disputes between both countries, that we, the Spaniards, sincerely desire they can happily solve so soon).
Connected to the West with our Portuguese partners in the Iberian Energy European Regional Market.
And essencially, with our other closest brothers and neighbours from the North, France 🇫🇷🇪🇺. That is preciselly the interconnection we would like to increase in order to complete a full European Energy Market, complying with the 15% energetical interconnection capacity planned by the European Comission as a minimum for 2030.
At this moment, France does not consider it as a prioritary, finding it a considerably expensive investment at the current moment, and regarding the present situation in Europe and in the World in general.
Nevertheless, we are convinced that both countries backed by all the rest of our European partners, will be able to manage to find a real satisfactory way to finally carry out the project for all the parts, since it results absolutely strategical for the correct development of the mentioned European Single Energy Market, and for Spain in particular, and also of course, for other European partners too, I am sure that with the due cooperation, coolaboration, and regarding the sincere and profound friendship that characterizes our mutual relantionship, both countries will be able to find multiple ways that can help compensate the logistical and financial problems it could supposse in the current moment, if not now, at least for sure in the near future, finding ways to expand the benefits we both could obtain from this and other collaborations to come.
In the end, all of us are Europeans, and is in our own interest to promote the sincere and mutual beneficial relationships between all of us. Being together make us stronger, and totally complementary, and I am absolutley sure that in that complementarity we will find authentically tons of ways to cooperate and make Europe more prosperous by making at the same time our own nations more prosperous together.
Once clarified this, I'd like to appoint that Algeria is one of the biggest, if not the biggest gas supplier to Spain, but rivalizing directly with the USA, and also with a very important participation of other nations like Nigeria or Qatar, via the LNG carriers.
Spain has one of the most diversified gas supplies of all Europe, and is not dependent on our friends from Algeria up to an imprudential extent of a 90%, but more close, and depending on the year, to a 30-35%.
- Let me make you another little but important appointment at the same time, please. With all the due respects, of course, but regarding the expression: Latin-America... we as Spaniards, never had understood such a thing... you have to apologize us, but since such a thing never existed under any historic or cultural point of view, we consider that the only proper way to refer to, is as Hispanic or Iberic-America (or directly Ibero-America).
Everybody knows that the Roman Empire extended in its most greatest times (under the rule of the Hispanic Emperors, by the way, Traianus and Adrianus. Or Trajan and Adrian in English, I think), over the vast majority of all the European current countries, except the Baltics, Ireland and the Nordics, in a total or partial extention. In the North of Africa, and in the Minor Asia, in countries like the currents Turkey, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, etc., but never ever extended over America for obvious reasons.
Latin was never ever spoken there, of course, for those very same and obvious reasons, but Portuguese and Spanish.
Other languages derived from the Latin were not either spoken there never ever like the Italian or the Romanian, nevertheless, a great amount of Brithis words come from the Times of the Roman Britannia, and of course, French (another language derived from the Latin too), is spoken as an official language in Canada also.
We simply do not understand why Hispanic-America or Ibero-America (or Iberic-America), are not referred as what they historically really are, and are instead falsely referred as Latin?!? -America...
Since a hughe part of the current USA was only 2 centuries ago part of the Spanish Empire too (basically all their South and West), and even significant quantities of the current Canadian territories were Spanish too... and they speak languages with a great influence from Latin... why are not they called Latin-America too then?!?!?
Obviously, it doesn't make sense at all to us... 🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️.
Regarding the recent problems with Catalonia, I think is something absolutely circumstancial. People in Spain would be exactly absolutely the same Pro-Europeist. The problem in Catalonia is recent and triggered mainly by the financial crisis from the past decade, before that nobody expected such a surge of nationalism, was simply unbelivable, so I don't think that determines that profound Spanish Europeism... you should look instead for deepest cultural and historical roots.
Not even European Union and democracy are directly associated here, in Spain. Spain would remain profoundly democratic with or without Europe nowadays, but the European external accompainance from the European Ecomomic Community, and even from the USA at that moment, are here very deeply appreciated, recognized and valued, since it helped significantly to a sweet transition here in Spain, and of course we are thankful people. We felt very backed in that internal and individual process, and I sincerely think it has more to do with that regarding those concrete aspects.
Despite that life is multifactorial, and if you allow me too, I humbly think that the main reason why most of the people here in Spain are so Europeistic, is basically, because we also lived terrible traumas in the past (we didn't participate in both WWs, but instead suffered an even more cruel civil war, where the Spaniards were who killed each other, leaving so deep scars for decades to come). And of course, the fact of realizing that alone, you are doomed to fail and fall in the most absolute irrevelance. Isolating yourself we understand it as a terrible error. Our place is in Europe with all the rest of our European brothers.
Spain, we use to say, it has two historical and cultural legs, one foot is with our brothers from the Hispanic-America, and the other one with our brothers from Europe, where we belong. From those two legs, Spain looks all over the rest of the World.
I hope it helped to anyone to understand the Spanish point of view.
Best regards to all those who reached the end of the comment.
I am sorry if it was too long or annoying for you. That was not the real intemption.
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Amazing! Well done!
Spain is a shining example of what unity and compassion can accomplish. I wish the UK could learn from this.
Not only UK French too (i'm French) . Bien joué l'Espagne !
Spain has always been one of the top economies in the EU. Having suffered the banking crisis for a long time, gave them a bit of a low profile. I'm happy to see them taking so many good decisions and retaking their external affairs.
Interesting analysis ! Congrats ! :)
This was an excellent analysis
You forgot to mention Spain was able to impose his right of veto on any agreement concerning Gibraltar, which sits them at the table for virtually all EU-UK discussions.
Yaaay! I hope Spain has a great future ahead!
Really great video. Love it.
Spain's big problem in the European Union is that France does not want Spain to gain ground in terms of influence. For this reason, there is no Trans-Pyrenees gas pipeline, or the recent creation of train networks, stations and other infrastructure and Spanish companies. Other demonstrations of this French way of acting is when Morocco invaded Perejil Island, in the Strait of Gibraltar, all EU countries condemned the Moroccan invasion except France. It is an eternal rivalry, from the time of the Visigoths - Franks, Napoleon, the Spanish war of independence...
No te olvides de Italia y Flandes, 300 años dominando sus pretensiones hasta que los muy cerdos nos traicionaron por la espalda haciendo gala de la buena moral francesa.
You have not mentioned why the spain-europe gas pipe has not been done yet. France does not want it, doesn't want to lose Germany as their primary buyer of electricity.
Oh interesting point
@@jdlc903 well, at least is what have been said here in spain
France usually boycotts anything that gives influence to Spain. But if they want the EU to survive they'll have to stop doing that.
We italian want it , we italian want to collab more with spain and help each others . France germany don't because they would lose money but with giorgia meloni winning in italy things will change . For example Meloni wants to actually build the gas pipe between spain and italy
@@theteamxxx3142 Germany has been tremendously supportive of the souhtern european countries.
In Spain we feel like we have no future outside of the European Union. Being a solo player is a thing of the past.
We also feel that things are better done in central and northern Europe, and the EU acts as a bridge with them.
Yeah, we have to suck more money, cuz why not
I'm from Spain and I would prefer to be run by German leaders than Spanish ones.
@@atomarporculolastonterias2145 Chupate cu culo y deja a los demás en paz.
Imagine if there was a 'commonwealth' with countries like Spain, Mexico, Argentina and Philippines.
America has been very good at convincing them Spain is still the colonial villain, while US businesses suck them dry.
Soon...
@@loveistheanswer123 Yes two economic basket cases with hyperinflation, one narco-state, and Spain. Imagine that a complete nightmare in reality
That was what the Iberoamerican summit was suppose to stimulate buy the so called "Pink Tide" in Latam made it unfeasable for now, its an old idea stretching from the 18th centhury, an Iberomarican Union + Phillipines would be very beneficial in furthering economic, political and cultural ties.
Mexico has oil and gas. Currently, Mexico burns off large amounts of its gas since there is no infrastructure to use it. Building gas infrastructure is expensive but its cheaper to burn it off. With EU. investment this gas could go to the EU.. And Argentina has Vaca muerta . Vaca muerta is a region of Western Argentina which has a huge deposit of shale oil and gas which has not really been exploited. More investment is needed. The Philippines is a major exporter of nurses which in many Western nations are having problems recruiting inside there nations.
A Spaniard here. Spain was made up of many medieval kingdoms that we hold up to this day. You can learn about it in our Coat of Arms. We’ve never stopped bickering but no matter what “kingdom” you ask you’ll get the same answer: we feel/are European to the bone. That’s why the Ukrainian invasion is such a hot topic here, because it’s an attack on Europe.
Russia is also Europe, both beligerants are european countries
@@atomarporculolastonterias2145 Read your name and apply it
People from Canarias, Ceuta and Melilla are African.
@@atomarporculolastonterias2145 si sabemos que los Rusos también son Europeos pero ellos los Rudos an olvidado que son Europeos y atacan sin importar si atacan al mismo continente que miles de siglos an vivido .Es lamentable.
@@atomarporculolastonterias2145 only some part of Russia is Europe (both geografically and mentally)
I'd also add as a mayor reason to not have euro-sceptic relevant parties the fact that without the eurozone Spain whould have crashed and burned even more so than we did in 2010-2012.
We are aware of it and grateful, that's why we don't want to gamble with our own currency and stay loyal not only to the EU, but mostly the EURO
If we didn't have to pay for the German banks failed investments and suffer silly austerity promoted by the German controled troika we wouldn't have had any crisis in the first place, or at least not so deep.
I dont hink it is related at all with that everybody at the time complained about how we couldnt deflate the currency (wich was badly nedded) because of that
Well we crashed destroying our industry in the north to enter in the EU lol
The Euro is doing bad. They say a new world currency will be established by the BRIC nations. This BRIC currency will supposedly be a much more stable world currency.
No, my friend. It was because of the insane monetary policy of the ECB that we had so many problems. Not the other way round. Read about it and how this policy and previous ones helped Germany.
I just don't understand why Spain doesn't see themselves as strong and lovely as they are? They produce a lot of stuff. They could do it without EU, but they are always firm and faitful in what they belive.❤ would love to see Spain in a stronger EU position
Well we are poor, feel bullied by France all the time, have centuries of bad propaganda brought up again and again everytime the name "Spain" comes up in the news and... we don't produce a lot of stuff, just cars, wine and tourism.
I am spaniard and i feel my country as very strong and lovely jijijiji :)
We do
@@kenobi6257 man, don't make your personal problems the problems of an entire country. That's you, not Spain
Wow do you Spaniards have problems with the French too?
Here in Italy too, the French want to buy a lot of strategic Italian companies but Mario Draghi has blocked everything fortunately.
Thank you for information about of Spain.
I am from of Spain and good video.
I really hope he does a video for Italy and Poland to see their perspectives as well.
That's going to be much harder to predict so I doubt they make the videos soon. Note the following:
Italy is just very hard to predict. Too unstable. They have a bigger GDP than Spain which should give them a push but they also have less room to grow (both internally and geopolitically), worse foreign relations, less soft power and much less stability (and now a government that goes against most of the EU politically and therefore will have it harder to attract investment.)
As for Poland. It has had some of the best growth in EU. And being on the east is a boon short term as EU focuses on countering Russia. But this focus won't last long, and is likely to shift to south east as soon as Ukraine is free, and as for their growth, it depends too much on EU funds and as a result is starting to plateau. As for their government, unlike Italy we don't have to guess, they are actively pissing off the EU and pushing away investors. Furthermore, Poland doesn't have easy access to... Well anyone other than Ukraine and Belarus. So their geopolitical situation will be an active hinderance as soon as the war ends (something they're familiar with...), and their government has made their logistics even worse, by wasting a ton of the railway and comunication funds in megaprojects which won't accomplish the goals of such funds and in the case of the mega airport actively go against what those funds are meant to do, while Spain, Portugal and Italy have seen considerable economic boons from having used those funds as intended, so Poland will be missing out on the economic benefits of the EU railway expansion plans, meaning they are likely to get outcompeted, which will hinder them.
So how to predict them? Hell, it depends on a lot of things. Poland's nuclear bet could prove to work and give them a boost to counter the issues with their transport, even then from here on they're basically on "hard mode" though, and Italy really could go either way depending on what their government does next. If they know how to play the game they might wind up as the next big power at least for a bit, if not they're likely to get left behind.
A third player here would be Portugal, btw. They have most of Spain's benefits and more foreign investment right now, and they have very strong ties to Spain, so specially the train scheme will be GREATLY beneficial for them when Spain does its part. The only reason they're not as big a deal as spain is their literal size (both in area, population and GDP) and the fact that the number of non-EU countries they have ties to is much smaller (and Brazil is too much of an issue right now to serve as a boon for them), but they're likely to gain a lot of relevance soon and Spain is likely to help them instead of actively competing with them.
Can we get a similar video about Poland and Italy being new powers in Europe?
I don’t think that Italy will become a great power in Europe. Poland maybe, they have a big influence over the east
@@funghi2606 why does Poland have big influence over the east? This is news to me
@@funghi2606 Italy is already a great power bro
@@funghi2606 poland is anti russian since 2008
@@funghi2606 con la meloni se fa quello che dice di fare ( basta redito di cittadinanza , diminuire il debito , costruire un gas dotto con la spagna , cap al prezzo del gas , basta immigrazione , miglior controllo del mediterraneo da parte nostra e far diventare il sud italia un hub appunto energetico per tutta l'euorpa , oltre che guardare al lavoro allora si ) . Noi dobbiamo sistemare prima i numeri (debito) , diventare energeticamente indipendenti , superare la crisi del breve termine e poi bisogna pensare solo a diminuire la disoccupazione . Punto , così rimani al top globale e nel caso l'aumento della popolazione ritorna
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Great video
"New powers of Europe"
Former Spanish, French, and German Empires "are we a joke to you"
VIVA :-) Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪🇪🇺🇪🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺🇪🇸
You're not German
@@rao803 Youre not German either
@@froglifes6829 i don't pretend to be and never have
@@froglifes6829 I'm German 👋🏻
Spain does seem to have 'become France' in the last couple of decades. What France has thus become, I don't know. But belief in Europe and also a very long-standing support for public infrastructure (UK should really take note) has helped.
france has become francistan
We became the UK. we have Thatcher and Farage trying to get elected, we had Blair in power (social traitors),
spain is spain and france is france stop spreading nonsense
Something else which hasn't been mentioned with regards to Spain: With the exception of Morocco, there's a hell of a lot less antagonism towards it from African countries, which means more willingness to cooperate.
Even now, France still insists on treating former colonies as such.
And it's not a bad thing to have a divers leadership and less of a monopoly on France and Germany's part.
Very interesting
Spanish people are staid and steady and spain will become a good hub for all north people working on social media and internet
The problem of europe lies on the comments here...So many germans,french and italians criticising Spain instead of supporting its advantages to open new markets and make an stronger EU....such a pity that arrogance...
Historically these three countries have been superpowers before, healthy economy good army etc..
As a Spaniard I disagree with most Spaniard comments on this video. I mean yes Spanish people really feel connected to EU mainly because without them our debt would probably be the end of us. But I have to say I doubt Spain could lead the EU. You have to take into account the internal political instability. Without a strong leadership inside the country, it's impossible for Spain to guide the EU. Also, people abroad and most people in Spain that are not too familiar with these environments might not know, but a similar Euroscepticism and Natoscpecticism of the one Giorgia Melonni defends in Italy is rising strongly. Media really does a good job hiding it, but I see it with my own eyes every day. Theres a shit load of people who dont wanna leave the UE but feel like it's getting too "federalist" and its starting to control the member countries' politics a bit too much, and would like for it to go back to how it used to be on paper when it was created. So it's possible that if a Spanish president tries to lead the EU in some way they might be stopped by their own people to a certain extent if sentiment keeps raising. Also, antipartidism (dont know if I spelled that correctly, but I refer to a movement against the current democratic system and aspiring to have a more participative democracy, with less power for the political parties and more referendums) are getting stronger by the day while separatist parties are aswell. Spain might be up to big changes in the next 20 to 30 years. I sure hope Spain manages to overcome the black legend and become a relevant country in the world tho.
One of the reasons why immigration is not a main political issue in Spain is because most migrants in Spain come from South America. Because of the shared language and what Spain did during colonization, not even the far-right parties dares to attack them.
Latin Americans tend to integrate easily in Spain. The same thing goes for the UK with people coming from its ex-colonies
Not really, most immigration comes from Morocco and Romania
@@codefluence is that a per country analysis? If one says “most from…”, then you’re looking at the majority, not the highest fraction. If you add up all of South America, is it lower or higher than the two countries you mentioned?
@@codefluence Nope. We have about 7 million immigrants (one of the largest % in all of Europe), and only 2 million are non-latinos. And there is very little social anxiety about them. We are much more concerned with jobs and foreign policy (and internal unity, to be fair, ie: pissed off regions).
@@codefluence well romanian is also a latin language,although it sounds pretty different due to slavic influences. But it's quite easy for romanians to learn Spanish.
6:03 : You said "Africa", but meant "Latin America" in my opinion. Otherwise, nice study 😃 Other reasons for Spain's strength : no conspiracy ideas floating around, strong pro-science views amongst the population. Spain has been a unified state for 500 years, so the feeling of belonging is stronger than in other more recently unified countries in Europe. State services work relatively well as well, so those are assets. What endemically goes wrong is enough for a long comment ! 😆
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It's funny, when it comes to regional affairs, we are pretty tribalistic and egotistical with each other. But when it comes to work with other countries, we are team players.
Very cool from spain, I dont need eurosceptism either. The EU is such a great and unique construct, worth to be part of. We can only make it better, and Spain goes in the right direction. Love from the EU :) 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
Good.
The EU needs more Leadership and Initiative.
If Spain can Deliver I welcome their growing Influence.
I think that Spain is always unfairly compared to France, Italy, UK or Germany without taking into account that it has less population. Demographically you would need almost two Spain to make a Germany and 1 Spain +2 countries like Portugal to be like France or UK. Therefore, the power of influence is also reduced in proportion to the population. For income per capita Spain is a kind of Italy but with 13 million less inhabitants. Italy is like 1 Spain+Portugal combined, so its influence today is almost proportional to that size.
Amazing ❤
Gracias