At the beginning of June 2022, we dedicated an installment of this series to talking about Werner von Siemens, a German entrepreneur who set up a small telegraph line construction business and who, over the decades, would become the multinational Siemens we all remember. But in that text, we didn't start by talking about him, but rather about the person who was key to Siemens establishing itself in Catalonia in 1910. This man was Lluís Muntadas Rovira, from the family that owned La España Industrial, but who—as we said at the time—had his own plans.

The business world tends to practice discretion in political terms in order to maintain a certain neutrality that does not harm its interests. But we are immersed in uncertain times and some companies are beginning to speak out in defense of the values that have seen them born and grow, the founding values of European democracy.