The Clarity Act, passed by the Canadian federal Parliament in 2000, which granted Quebec a constitutional path to self-determination, was repeatedly invoked during the Catalan independence process as an alternative solution to the impasse we faced. Similarly, the speech by Canadian Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney at the Davos meeting a month ago is opening a solid path toward what should be European self-determination to break free from the new framework of multipolar imbalance being established by the United States and China, with the indispensable collaboration of Russia.

Digital money, in a strict sense, has been with us for a long time. Fortunately, paying, transferring, or accumulating money is, in most cases, a process that no longer involves any physical exchange—neither coins nor bills—nor the use of traditional payment instruments such as checks, cheques, or promissory notes. All of these have been progressively replaced by card charges, transfers, and other transactions reflected only in accounting entries, without the physical movement of money.

In November 2021, Andrés Iniesta's bonhomie received a warning from the Spanish financial markets regulator. The former Barcelona player was already an Instagrammer with almost 40 million followers, and was recruited by the still-active crypto platform Binance to advertise on social media and recommend investments in the platform's cryptocurrency, the so-called Binance Coin, BNB. This was one of the first examples of the transformation ofinfluencers in finfluencers, moving from promoting insensitive products and services to promoting investment products and providing furtive financial advice, with obvious risks to followers' assets.