In 1962, Franco's government requested the initiation of the European integration process through a letter from Minister Castiella, offering, as the first Spanish contributions, 'territorial continuity' and 'geographical position', with the addition of the well-known 'links with the American countries'. It is shocking to see how little the imaginary of the Spanish State regarding its own value has changed since Franco's regime, basically that of a large plot of land for sale around Madrid, converted into a kind of Euro-American hub. The hub thing is an almost greater nonsense in the globalized and multi-connected present, but in any case it reveals the continuity of the post-imperial complex of the elites of the capital of the State.