The former advisor at the Representation of Spain to the EU, Carlos M. Ortiz Bru, analyzes in Demócrata the dangers of Brussels' technological strategy: why changing external suppliers is not true strategic autonomy, but a simple change of dependence
The former advisor at the Representation of Spain to the EU, Carlos M. Ortiz Bru, analyzes in Demócrata how the profile of the main European leaders shapes community decisions: "An experiment led by ambitious, pragmatic, and vain people who try to manage existential crises while maintaining a stubborn appearance of normality"
The former counselor at the Representation of Spain to the EU, Carlos M. Ortiz Bru, analyzes in Demócrata the way in which the continent seeks to become larger in the face of foreign rivals: "Europe is expanding because the world has become dangerous. Because leaving gray areas on the continent is more expensive than integrating them."
The former advisor at the Representation of Spain to the EU, Carlos M. Ortiz Bru, analyzes in Demócrata the particular jargon that invades legislative life in the European bubble: "Spanish, apparently, is used to order coffee and argue within the family. But to manage the world, one must emit Anglo-Saxon corporate grunts."
The former counselor at the Representation of Spain to the EU, Carlos M. Ortiz Bru, analyzes in Demócrata the architecture of the ninety billion loan for Kyiv that the Europeans unlocked after the electoral defeat of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán
The former advisor at the Representation of Spain to the EU, Carlos M. Ortiz Bru, analyzes the Government's international information policy in Demócrata: "when journalists joke about how difficult it is to get answers, when they compare national styles with a certain irony, when sarcastic commentary replaces serious analysis... it is usually because something is not working as it should."
The former advisor at the Representation of Spain to the EU, Carlos M. Ortiz Bru, analyzes in Demócrata the situation in Hungary and Orbán's farewell: "Hungary seemed solid. Until it stopped seeming so. And then someone appeared who didn't fit in."
The former counselor at the Representation of Spain to the EU, Carlos M. Ortiz Bru, analyzes in Demócrata the strategy adopted by the European Parliament in processing the trade agreement between the European Union and the United States
The former counselor at the Representation of Spain to the EU, Carlos M. Ortiz Bru, reflects in Demócrata on how the American president has been able to bring European leaders to an agreement around issues such as the sovereignty of the Union, defense or commercial policy
The former counselor at the Representation of Spain to the EU, Carlos M. Ortiz Bru, reflects in Demócrata on the results of the latest report from the V-Dem Institute which warn of a drift towards autocratization is deepening in the main Western powers
The former counselor at the Representation of Spain to the EU, Carlos M. Ortiz Bru, reflects in Demócrata on the redefinition of European policy to boost its own defense: "Europe talks about a common defense market. In practice, that market remains a sum of carefully protected national markets"
The former counselor in the Representation of Spain to the EU, Carlos M. Ortiz Bru, reflects in Demócrata on the new role of the European Union in the geopolitical context opened by the United States: "Europe cannot limit itself to being the normative guardian of an international order that others sustain with hard power. It needs, without renouncing them, something more than norms"
The former counselor at the Representation of Spain to the EU, Carlos M. Ortiz Bru, analyzes in Demócrata the discursive turn of the European Union and makes a call to action: "The liberal order is not wounded, it is buried"
The former vice-president of the European Commission converses with Demócrata days before the meeting of the European Council in which the Twenty-Seven seek to accelerate, through concrete measures, the continent's competitiveness at a time when it is necessary to advance "more than at any other time in its recent history"
The former counselor at the Representation of Spain to the EU, Carlos M. Ortiz Bru, draws in Demócrata the scenario on which decisions are made in the community capital. A synchronized choreography where protagonists and antagonists duel: "Brussels does not enamor: it creates habit. It does not seduce: it structures"
Democrat converses with the former MEP about the Spanish position in the current international current debates and the stance adopted by the European Union: "Current politics requires gestures of authority, of power that wants to be so"