Denmark's wealthiest businesspeople are up in arms and have fully entered the election campaign for the general election to be held in the Nordic country on March 24. The reason for their discontent is the campaign promise of Social Democratic Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen to reintroduce a 5% annual wealth tax as a measure to reduce growing inequality in the country. The new tax, which has become one of the hottest topics of the election campaign, would affect some 22,000 people (in a country with 5.9 million inhabitants), who would pay an average of 300,000 kroner per year (40,000 euros). Frederiksen detailed this in the business daily. BørsenThe state would collect around 6 billion kroner annually (803 million euros), which would be used to finance the ambitious public school reform presented by the Social Democrats before the elections. Just days before the polls open, surveys show that the wealth tax is viewed favorably by a majority of voters, as Frederiksen's party is the most likely to win the election. However, there is virtually a tie between the progressive parties, which have supported the Social Democrats' proposal, and the conservative parties, which completely reject the idea. Executives from some of the country's leading companies have also publicly voiced their strong opposition, making unusual media appearances during the campaign. The CEO of shipping giant Maersk, Robert Maersk Uggla, has stated that the tax "would have very bad consequences for Denmark." Uggla, who heads the largest company in the Nordic country (with a turnover of €52 billion in 2024), expressed his fear that Danish companies will have even more difficulty hiring and retaining top executives due to the tax, as Denmark already applies one of the highest income tax rates in the world at 60.5% on salaries exceeding €348,000 annually. Meanwhile, businessman Henrik Andersen, CEO of Vestas (a world leader in wind turbine manufacturing), has threatened to pack his bags and move the company abroad if the Social Democrats fulfill their election promise. "If it comes to fruition; I can be more clear," he said in an interview with the newspaper. Berlingske

Spain's billionaires—the wealthiest people—earned an average of 77 million euros a day last year. This amount is equivalent to the earnings of one million workers. This is according to Oxfam Intermón's traditional report on inequality, published annually just before the start of the Davos summit.

Spain has gained eight new billionaires in the last year, bringing the total number of people with this level of wealth in the country to 32. Those who have joined this exclusive club, along with a fashion entrepreneur—specifically Amancio Ortega, the main shareholder of Inditex—driven the increase in billionaire wealth in Spain to $213.1 billion (€182.5 billion at the current exchange rate), representing 5% of the 2025 billionaire ambitions of the Swiss bank UBS. In Catalonia, the wealthiest individual is Sol Daurella, from the family that controls Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), who succeeded Mango founder Isak Andic, who died tragically.

On a plane that could take him, for example, to Barcelona to face Leo Messi's Barça, Marc Bertran (Pobla de Segur, 1982) would study. "I have a client friend who reminds me that I was the only one on the plane with the books. We lost a lot of time on the trips, and I wanted to make the most of them. I spent five years in Tenerife, where every two weeks we had to make quite long journeys," Bertran recalls in a conversation with ARA. "Mendilibar, my coach when I played for Osasuna, would sometimes ask me: 'Are you studying for exams, right?' Some days I'd stay up until 1 or 2 in the morning, studying, and he'd say it showed because I was more tired and distracted the next day." But it never goes away.