2024-01-04 03:04:13
In less than a week Nadia Calviño, ambition personified, has been the protagonist on several occasions. The first, on the occasion of her resignation from the Spanish Government. The second, for the triumphalist speech during the transfer of the portfolio to her successor at the head of the Ministry of Economy. The third, when she appeared smiling and happy in the box of the famous concert hall in Vienna where the New Year’s concert takes place. The fourth, because she is supposed to be the new head of the European Investment Bank (EIB), with a more than acceptable salary, of around 400,000 euros a year, which is completed with a tax treatment that we would all sign. right now, and with various other perks, among which are the rights to a future pension, which multiplies by far the amount of the Spanish maximum.
Calviño, a protégé of the late Pedro Solbes and also of Joaquín Almunia, had a career as a senior civil servant, first in Madrid and then in Brussels, in the shadow of both, when they held commissioner positions in the community capital. In 2018, and as she suspected that Pedro Sánchez could become President of the Government, she tried everything possible to get closer to the one she was called to be her right and left hand, Carmen Calvo from Córdoba. And she achieved her goal, leaving her position as Director General of the Budget of the European Commission to head the Spanish Ministry of Economy, as a preliminary step to return to Brussels again as Spanish Commissioner. It couldn’t be because Sánchez and Borrell crossed paths, but that’s another story. Since then she has tried to “get away” from Spain whenever she has had the chance: yes to the International Monetary Fund, yes to the Eurogroup, until, in the end, the third time was the charm.
He said goodbye with a triumphalist speech that the facts contradicted again and again. I will give just one example: in the five long years that he has been responsible for the Spanish economy, our country has lost so much wealth that it can once again be a beneficiary of the Cohesion Fund, even if Sánchez does not ask for it. Calviño’s ambition knows no limits and the EIB is another step in his career. Time to time.
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