The 224 diplomatic trips made by Don Juan Carlos during his reign had an economic impact of at least 62,023 million euros.
This is the conclusion reached by the Concordia Real Española association that has analyzed the impact that the trips abroad by Don Juan Carlos have had on the international projection of Spain from 1978 to 2014.
Concordia Real Española, a civil society movement for the defense of institutions and the current ‘status quo’, has presented a web portal (unlegadoreal.es) based on the analysis of 30 million public documents.
The portal’s presentation ceremony was attended by the journalist Ángel Expósito, the lawyer and former Secretary of State and High Commissioner for the Spain Brand, Carlos Espinosa de los Monteros, the former Defense Minister, Eduardo Serra and the project coordinator, Fernando Ruiz.
Serra defended the role of Don Juan Carlos to open the export doors to Spanish companies. He gave the clear example of the United Kingdom. “There are only three countries in the world that have multiplied per capita income by a hundred: Singapore, South Korea and Spain,” the former Defense Minister left as data.
The campaign «Do you remember when nobody gave a dime for us?» He has also hung a huge banner on the building at Calle Alcalá 20 with an image of a hard with the face of Juan Carlos I. The most frequent destinations of Don Juan Carlos were the United States and France, with 15 trips to each of them.
“The personality of King Juan Carlos made it possible for all this to be possible,” defended Espinosa de los Monteros, who explained the rigor and contrast with various sources so that the contracts could be accounted for. All this can be consulted in the tool that crosses the 224 trips and the delegation that accompanied them (companies) with the correlation of the activity of that company not only the year of the visit but with a time margin of two more years.
Regarding the possible visit of Don Juan Carlos to Spain, Espinosa de los Monteros said that “he has been waiting for more than a year for Juan Carlos I to come in the next 15 days” and assured that “in two days he will be in Sanxenxo.”
«It is the first time that I am ashamed of being Spanish. We are unjust and ungrateful. We are treating you as we have not treated terrorists. And we are being naive,” said Eduardo Serra about Don Juan Carlos’ nearly two-year stay in Abu Dhabi. “I share the feeling of humiliation with this matter,” said Espinosa de los Monteros.
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