A long-time official at the Ministry of Economy summarizes it as follows: “I’ve worked with many pastors who thought they were the smartest in the class, while Calviño thought they were the only smartest in the class. Nadia Calviño once said, … Youngest senior executive in the history of the European Commission There he built a brilliant civil service career and won a great poster in Brussels. When Sánchez called her to be his economy minister, she was, as he admitted in his memoir 2000 Days in Government, a person with an “excellent professional background and a strong international reputation, but completely unknown to our people.” What happened next was five and a half years of management in which the former vice president measured only progress and success, which, in her opinion, was overshadowed by media obscurity and noise generated by partners and opponents.
Nadia Calviño’s 3 questions for the president
On Saturday, June 2, 2018, Nadia Calviño received a phone call from President Sanchez. He wanted her to join the government as Minister of Economy. He asked me to think about it for two days. “The following Monday night, emerging from a state dinner with European officials and journalists, I asked the president three questions: Who would be the finance minister? Who will be the chairperson of the representative committee? He is the government’s head of economic affairs and responsible for digital issues and competition in trade. I was satisfied with their answer and accepted it. ”
“It’s different from Rivera!”
On the evening of April 28, 2019, Calviño heads to Feras to celebrate the PSOE’s electoral victory. “I was concerned about the screams I heard on Feras Street, “No Rivera.” However, I became even more worried when I saw that the Ciudadanos leader was blinded by the possibility of overtaking the PP and was not up to the task. that It was one of the great missed opportunities of Spanish politics.. Since Ciudadanos had no desire to negotiate a coalition, government formation was left in the hands of another “new” party, Podemos. Podemos had no experience in administrative management, was highly skilled in communications, and focused on short plays and immediate media influence.
Friction within the coalition
As explained in this book, the coalition government gave Calviño a new scenario to ensure consistency in the government’s message and avoid dissonance. “It was surreal to live in a dichotomy between reality and what the media said, and to listen to the press.” Messages spread to place fictitious versions I am the subject of constant attacks that use me as a symbol of all evil and try to demonize the actions of the Ministry of Economy. Beyond public debate, its actual impact on economic issues was limited. ”
threat of resignation
Differences over the approach to labor reform meant that Calviño’s era was ending before its time. «There was news about an agreement to completely abolish the PP labor reform. After receiving confusing answers, I managed to speak to the president in the evening, share my concerns, and tell him that I don’t know what I’m doing in government, if that’s the plan. At that time, I couldn’t find any meaning in my work.. We worked 24 hours a day to save the economy…and it seemed like everyone around us acted irresponsibly. ”
Calviño vs Diaz
The Ministry of Labor’s “tricks” in negotiating labor reforms and unemployment benefits also appear in Calviño’s memoirs. “After creating tension between the parties and making a balanced agreement impossible, the trabajo always found the same exit door. Pushing business owners out of reach“Given the political cost of reaching a bilateral agreement with trade unions and not verifying it, they put pressure on other economically driven governments to accept it, making it seem like they were the winners of an imaginary battle where in reality no one won anything.”
Economy and INE revival
In his presentation on “2,000 Days of Government”, Calviño admitted that he decided to publish the book after INE reviewed post-pandemic growth and revealed that GDP increased by 3.6 percentage points. ” Significant GDP estimation error by INE Since the pandemic, they have not helped to convey the true picture of what is happening in this country and have fueled negative discourse in the media and politicians. In the economic field, it was clear that there were problems with INE’s method of estimating GDP. We don’t really know why, but the fact is that statistics have kept estimates of activity much lower than actual activity.”
A chapter of photos with only men in them
A certain day in February 2022 Nadia Calvinho She has decided not to take any more photos of herself with only men.. She did it after an event where she was invited to pose at the bottom of the slope with all the men at the top. Three months later, at an event organized by the Madrid Employers Association, he kept his promise. “I tried to be as discreet as possible, but I was caught on camera trying to sneak out of the photo. I received many messages of gratitude for this gesture.”
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