Donald Trump becoming president of the United States could have a strong impact on a small town surrounded by vineyards in Penedès or Priorat. In our wine sector, they are very interested in Americans drinking Catalan wine, since it is the main export market (12.7% of sales go to it). If we look at the data from last year, from January to November, wine worth 78.82 million euros had been exported. Then comes the market in the United Kingdom, where many more bottles are exported, but at a much lower value. The reason is that in the British Isles a lot of volume is sold at a low cost to supply the large supermarkets. However, the American case is different, because what travels is quality wine.

The OECD has given Spain good news and bad news. The good: that it will be the Eurozone country where the economy will grow the most this year. The bad: that, among advanced economies, it will be the second slowest to recover the GDP per capita it had before covid, only behind Iceland.

It is one of the world's leading arms manufacturers and exporters. Spain occupies the seventh place in the world ranking: for a decade now it has been in the top ten of this list, alongside powers such as the United States, Russia, Germany, China and the United Kingdom, and therefore well above its economic potential. It is ahead of Israel, South Korea and Italy. Its main buyers are NATO countries, especially Germany and the United Kingdom, followed at a distance by France and Australia. In fifth place it has two controversial clients: Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Because of the war in Yemen, plagued by atrocities, Germany and Italy have stopped selling to the Saudis. Spain, on the other hand, has not. Since 2015, at least 233,000 people have died in the Yemen war (there are allegations of war crimes against all sides). The Turkish genocide against the Kurds has not put a brake on Spanish arms sales. After Venezuela, the Arab Emirates are the eighth client of the State: the violations of human rights have led Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands to deny them the sale of arms. Again, Spain has kept it.