The major problem in the current world is that there is more economic and communication globalization than political globalization. However, the institutions for global governance enjoy robust bad health and are increasingly active in facing new challenges. Next week, in the Bavarian Alps, there will be the annual summit meeting of the Group of Seven, the closest thing to a world government that has ever existed; it will focus on surveilling the previous climate accord on decarbonization, together with the pandemic and Ukraine. Immediately afterward, in the second half of the week, the NATO summit will gather in Madrid, on the 40^th anniversary of Spain’s membership, to approve a new Strategic Concept for the next ten years.

Trying to understand Spain's current political absurdity in its context, the only thing that comes to mind is the often-used saying that a new world is beginning to emerge and the old one is still here. The new world: after the pandemic we will see if what dominates is global interdependence, science, the digital economy, the European Union and international organisations... and new pandemics from which we will continue to learn. The old world: national politics. Spain's, certainly pathetic. In the midst of a huge health and economic crisis, Spanish politicians are engaged in playing cards with no-confidence votes, defectors, early elections, crude persecution of charges, indefinite suspension again of the renewal of the judiciary, demagogy, personalism, ineptitude and general disregard for the interests of society.