- ‘A stumbling Spain must guide Europe’ es el titular del editorial del Financial Tes que critica el programa de la presidencia española y hace referencia al accidente sufrido la web hace unos días.
La publicación británica se ha referido a la intrusión de un hacker en la página web de la presidencia española de la Unión Europea señalando además el parecido entre Mr. Bean, la agen que el hacker coló en la página, y el presidente Zapatero, recordando que este personaje es conocido sus torpezas.
Además de criticar el programa de trabajo español, al que define como anodino, se refiere a la situación económica que sufre el país y a la capacidad del Gobierno para enfrentarla. El Financial Tes recuerda que en las anteriores presidencias europeas, una durante el Gobierno de Felipe González y otra durante el de Aznar, la situación de España era diferente, era de creciento. De este modo hace una comparativa con la situación actual, estando la economía duramente golpeada la recesión global y con un centaje de desempleo cercano al 20%.
El diario también se muestra en desacuerdo con que el principal objetivo de esta presidencia sea el Tratado de Lisboa y no la solución de la crisis económica. En este sentido acusa al Gobierno de centrar los esfuerzos en el funcionamiento de las instituciones en vez de en los problemas reales de los ciudadanos.
EL EDITORIAL DEL FINANCIAL TIMES
A stumbling Spain must guide Europe
By any standards, it was an unfortunate beginning. Spain’s sixmonth presidency of the European Union, which got underway this week, appears to have been subject to an attack by computerhackers.
On its first day, websurfers navigating to the special presidency website found themselves staring at photos of Mr Bean, the hapless British comedy character who (some cla), bears a resemblance to José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Spanish pre minister.
Mr Bean is famous for his stumbles and mishaps and Spain is also looking accidentprone at the moment. On the previous occasions that Spain has assumed the presidency of the EU, the country’s mood was very different.
Both the González and Aznar governments were presiding over a booming economy that infused the whole nation with a certain swagger. But Spain has been hit very hard by the global recession. Unemployment is close to 20 per cent and the alltant construction sector is on its back.
Perhaps Mr Zapatero is being distracted by his domestic travails, because the work programme that he has proposed for the Spanish presidency is remarkably anodyne, even by the undemanding standards of most European Union presidencies.
The now unhacked website clas that the EU’s new Lisbon treaty will be the “focus of the Spanish presidency”. Since the treaty has just come into force and puts into place a complex structure that combines the rotating presidency Spain has just assumed with a new permanent presidency it is understandable that the Spanish see getting this new system to work as a priority.
All the same, if the Spanish presidency genuinely does concentrate on making the Lisbon treaty work, it would be making a mistake that is all too typical of the European Union: concentrating on the finetuning of institutional arrangements, at the expense of dealing with realworld problems that trouble European citizens.
Of these problems, by far and away the most tant is the economic crisis. Growth is still feeble across Europe and Spain is no exception. During the Spanish presidency, European governments will have to try to agree whether and how fast to withdraw the fiscal stuli that were put in place last year.
The next six months could also see a fullblown fiscal crisis in Greece or Latvia. Dealing with these challenges, without any unfortunate Beanlike mishaps, will be Mr Zapatero’s biggest challenge over the next six months.
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