The economic uncertainty generated by Trump's decisions, singularly tariffs, and The concerns of the main cities of the Spanish Mediterraneansummarized in the difficulties of access to housing, the compatibility of citizen life with the excesses of a rising tourism or adaptation to climate change, today assumed the role of protagonists on the third day of the II Mediterranean Forum, organized by the Iberian press and the La Caixa Foundation.
He CEO of Iberian pressAitor Moll, closed the event and in his speech, in addition to summoning the attendees to the third edition, which will take place next year in Barcelona, emphasized “the extraordinary potential of the Mediterranean area.” He has also defended that “protecting the Mediterranean is to protect our future.” Among the challenges to be overcome for this area has mentioned the “lack of affordable housing, labor precariousness and distrust between residents and visitors.” Three objectives present in the life of the Mediterranean cities.
As a space for coexistence, cities are an essential factor of the territory and The mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, He also wanted to weigh the abilities of his managers. So much, that he came to affirm that “if the mayors and mayors govern the world everything would go better.” Already going down to the field of everyday life, the first Barcelona mayor expressed his conviction that the great objective is to “claim the right to stay in the city. That is, it must be guaranteed that people who want to live and work in their city can do it.”
Most Mediterranean cities are affected by two phenomena in some way parallel, such as excess tourists and uniformization. In relation to this, Jaime Martínez Llabrésmayor of Palma, points out that the challenge is to recover “what has been blurred with globalization” and that this will be achieved “reaffirming identity, history, origins.” Tourism is a hot matter because, in addition to its incidence in the real estate market, it is difficult to combine the enormous economic revenues that pay cities with everyday life in them. The mayor of Malaga, Francisco de la Torredefends to look for a “balance”, while Collboni presented some measures already adopted in Barcelona, such as the tourist rate or the limitations to the offer of floors.
LTo mayor of Valencia, María José Cataláheart Emphasis on him Climate change and the DANA OF OCTOBER 29: “Thanks to the South Plan, the large part of the population of the city of Valencia was saved from the water. If 60 years ago we were able to alter the channel of the Turia River, we now have to think as a country in first level hydrological infrastructures.” Catalá opened another line of debate and is that “a great city cannot expel its own. There are several mechanisms that can be launched, such as public housing promotion.” It is the great concern of many citizens, especially the youngest. So much so that Of the tower He has confessed that “it is what I dedicate more time in my management.”
To Noelia Arroyo, mayor of Cartagena, One of the essential problems is in the Mobility, because it considers that “we are not well connected, but worse than the last century.”
Geopolitics: Europe's challenge
The national and international economy and geopolitics have entered fully into the debates of the third day of the forum. He President of CaixaBank, Tomàs Muniesahe has started his speech remembering that citizens had long known that “things in the world were going to change”, with the arrival of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States: “He is culminating his work.” In this context, it has been overwhelmed: “Either Europe step today in decision -making or can fall into irrelevance.”
The theme is capital, as revealed the IESE Economy Professor José Manuel González-Páramo and the lawyer Miriam Gonzálezwho dialogue about how to face new scenario of the economy. The first was conclusive: “No one can win a tariff war.” Then he predicted that “we are going to live an era of much more uncertainty than we were used to. Geopolitics was there and we have already become accustomed to her, but now we talk about geoeconomy.” González, meanwhile, has affirmed that “Europe is greatly worried. Trump's limits are more markets than politics. In the European Union we catches us without having a hard power and very disconnected from all that wave of the transition to technology, where we have not made the decisions we had to have made.”
AI and its counterparts
Carissa Véliz, Expert in AI, He has highlighted Erosion in democratic quality And he added that “privacy is important because it protects us from abuse of power. We have never collected so many personal data at a time when geopolitics is increasingly complex and when democracy is not in its peak.”
The Mediterranean forum has had the support of signal companies such as Moeve, CaixaBank, Endesa, Telefónica, Metrovacesa, Iberdrola, Renfe, Naturgy, Mango, Redeia, Aena, Vueling, Abertis, Pamesa, Mercadona, Simetria, Fundación Pacha, Booking.com, Statkraft, Uax Group, TM Real Estate Group. Bebartlet. Also with the impulse of the Junta de Andalucía, Generalitat de Catalunya, Region of Murcia, Government of Les Illes Balears, Malaga City Council, Diputación de Málaga, Barcelona City Council, Palma City Council, Murcia City Council and Cartagena City Council.
